Pension Peace

"I felt like saying "What happened to those eyes of yours?" A strange feeling had seized me.

It was as if he had dropped his eyes in a crowded place and thousands of people had stepped on them. Then he picked up these two crushed, torn, shriveled eyes and stuffed them into their sockets, pressing down. Maybe they could have been the eyes of someone who had lived a thousand, ten thousand years."

A man who owns a bookstore in Beyoğlu moves into Pension Huzur, which is on the back streets of the same neighborhood. Its owner, İnci, has turned the apartment she rented into a boarding house where she can make ends meet.

Inci is hungry but she is also greedy. She is extremely grumpy but she easily comes to her senses. She is ruthless but she is soft-hearted enough to share her dry bread. She has a foul mouth but she speaks French. She is polite but throws her nobility off her shoulders like a shawl. She is that kind of woman anyway, unaffected but "more of a 'film' woman than those who play in Beyoğlu cinemas."

Pansiyon Huzur is a tiny universe filled with its customers, neighbors, passersby on the street and fans; shaped by the society it is in and reflecting that society with İnci at its center…

There is always something new that is familiar in the pension, the same events constantly develop; ordinary people turn into extraordinary characters, the known into secrets, the stone-walled structure into a glass palace. Pension Huzur is now a showcase that we stop and watch on the street, a miracle from the pen of İrfan Yalçın…

İrfan Yalçın won the second prize in the Milliyet Publications Novel Competition in 1974 with his first book Pension Huzur, out of 312 works with different themes.

(From the Promotion Bulletin)

Pass Type : 2. Paste

Number of Editions : 1. Edition

Year of First Printing : 2018

Number of Pages : 272

Size : 12 x 19