A Time of Cats, Seagulls and Madmen

"I traveled around Moscow, Leningrad, Alma Ata, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, with that love, I gave up resisting and let him enter with me into hotel rooms, mountain tops, taxpayer tables of Soviet cooperatives, the large courtyard where Nazım Hikmet's funeral was held, and the canvases of the artists on Moscow's Arbat Street. When I returned from that long journey, I said, 'Come on, tell me.' he said, 'What did you experience?' I think that was the secret of why this love lasted so long, I never stop telling stories. Now that I remember him listening to my stories in the serenity after making love, it must be so."

Işıl Özgentürk is a versatile writer. He made his name known to large audiences with his film scripts, children's books, plays, story and memoir books, columns and journalism. The stories in this book are his latest works. These stories, which will leave a mark on memories with their sincere and impressive language, their subjects taken from real life, their painful realism, and their sometimes poetic and sometimes fairy-tale narrative, are for those who want to get to know the different worlds opened by Işıl Özgentürk.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 120

Printing Year: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Red Cat