Letter

Four stories from Peride Celal:

A woman who has been living with an insect for two years says that the insect is with her. He looks for a solution by applying to a psychiatrist who will tell him that he is alive; As if the cure itself could be "The Insect".

Saffet Bey was not a pure and clean man. The mourning of his "beloved" wife, which was his ticket to a life where he spent only making money, made him plan for a belated future. But he is shattered by a poisonous "Letter" coming from a distance, from his young son who is studying in London. Future fictions are intertwined with past tales.

Could an old mother who directs the life of a working child fail to direct the life of her own daughter? The life adventure of the "child", who starts running regularly towards the age of forty, turns into the story that summarizes the recent history of the country, "The Runner", a story in which the girl realizes that she is the fruit of her mother.

She is trying to get rid of the pressures piled on her, one by one, during her transition from adolescence to womanhood. Fugitive.”

“I am a writer who moves from stories to novels. I wrote hundreds of stories in my youth and later. They disappeared between the newspaper pages. (...) Later I started writing novels. (...) Writing a story is not an easy task. In a way, it's even harder than the novel. Even more enjoyable. As you know, I am a writer who comes from a bourgeois family and criticizes the big city and the conservative, corrupt people of this environment, the big city. The four stories in this new book of mine, Letter, were written with the same thoughts and observations as my novels."

Peride Celal

"Some novelists' short stories, especially short stories, cannot avoid being crumbs of a novel. Even though Peride Celal's stories reflect her novel world with some elements, they are 'stories', not fragments of a novel.”

Hulki Aktunç

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Dough

Number of Pages: 160

Size: 12 x 19

First Printing Year: 2020

Number of Prints: 1. Edition

Language : Turkish