Bir Katilin İtirafları

1930s, Paris. A Russian restaurant on Quatre Vents Street, frequented by Russian refugees: Tari-Bari. And a man nicknamed “the murderer” who stands out among the regulars: Semyon Semyonovich Golubchik. One night, Golubchik begins to tell the story of his life. He has indeed killed someone: “That’s my nickname, but on the other hand, it’s not really that much of an attribution. Many years ago I killed a man, and at the time I thought I had killed a woman, too.”

On a night that seems to stretch into eternity, the regulars of Tari-Bari witness the fate of a man’s life. The ambitious struggle of a prince’s illegitimate son to be accepted by his father and society in the living conditions of Tsarist Russia, the secret organization espionage he is dragged into for the sake of this struggle, a vortex of ambition, revenge and hatred that becomes completely inextricable with a woman he is passionately attached to…

With his novel that he weaves together with strong psychological descriptions, Roth reveals with a striking narrative that individual destiny cannot be thought independently of the social, while reminding once again how questionable values such as “good” and “bad” are.

(From the Promotion Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Hamur

Number of Pages: 160

First Printing Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition