Kalan

"I had always been an inauthentic person. Even before the accident, if I had been walking down the street like Robert de Niro, if I had lit a cigarette like him and even if I had succeeded in lighting it on the first try, I would still have thought: Here I am, walking down the street and smoking a cigarette, just like a movie character. Do you understand? Second-hand. The people in the movie don't think about this. They are just doing their jobs, they are not thinking about anything real. While I was recovering from the accident, while I was learning to move and walk, while I was trying to understand in order to be able to move... All of this caused me to be more than what I had been before, and added another layer of distance between me and the things I had done."

We don't know what happened to the unnamed narrator of Kalan, but we are aware of its consequences: He suffers memory loss, the order of the memories he was able to regain later changes, and he has to relearn even the simplest daily movements. For example, he is learning to hold a carrot and bring it to his mouth or to walk again. In this way, he thinks about human actions for a long time. Thanks to the large compensation he has won, he is trying to recreate the moments when he was more himself.

Tom McCarthy delves into those authentic moments that we never think about while living, that we don't even realize are passing us by: He takes some "frames" from life, magnifies them under the lens, plays them over and over again, and creates a fluid novel out of all of them.

The novel that brought literary fame to Tom McCarthy, one of the most interesting writers to emerge from England in recent years, Kalan, was translated by Çiğdem Erkal İpek.

"This stunningly brilliant novel is about that rarest of fictional subjects: Happiness."
-Jonathan Lethem-
(From the Promotion Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 324

Year of Publication: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Jaguar Kitap

Number of Pages: 324

First Publishing Year: 2015

Language: Turkish