Adınla Başlar Hayat

There were approximately twenty sizes on the floor; The bodies of old and young men and women, of beautiful girls lying in strange positions with stab wounds, of children you could barely call teenagers, of all the victims of this fierce war that consumes our lives. "I'm telling you, mothers and fathers, there is death outside. If it continues like this, it will be close, we will even see the death of birth."

The traces of a huge history hiding behind modest characters and a man who has made death his profession; Professional Mourner Toloki... Noria, who is loyal to her profession, has principles, lives a reclusive life and never begs, and fascinates everyone even when she was a little girl. As they grow up, the paths of the two childhood friends, whose own misfortune becomes entangled with the misfortune of their country, cross again years later at a funeral. In this country, death is now what destroys, creates, unites and separates. Yet the flowers and dreams remain. As long as these two exist, there is no reason not to be happy. The story of those who hold on to life with all their grace in a country where people are killed at insignificant prices and hunger and poverty are considered normal...

Zakes Mda, one of South Africa's most important writers, received the M-Net Book Award, the most prestigious award of his country. He reveals the realities of the land where he was born in this novel, Life Begins with Your Name, which won the Written in a period when death became the most important fact of this geography, the novel also appears as a sincere expression of this concept...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1. Edition

Original Name: Ways of Dying