Long Walk

"What is this, he said to himself, what is all this going on, why am I here, why am I still alive?"

"Maybe, he thought, I am a castaway, I am the last survivor of a sinking ship. But there is no sea in these mountains. Then, he said, maybe I am Noah whose ship sank. My ship crashed into the mountains and was destroyed in the flood, my wife, my children, my siblings, my animals, they all died. I was the only one left behind so that there would be a sign of the disaster."

A hero who thought that his body would peel off one by one like an onion skin while setting out on the road, but on the contrary, it became crusted and hardened, layer by layer, like a tree trunk. A place where there is no human voice and where it is not heard. He crosses the country from one end to the other to reach the destination. It is as if he does not desire anything, he does not demand anything. Is such an existence possible? The Long Walk is Ayhan Geçgin's fourth novel.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 160

Printing Year: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing