Rosary Beads

Migirdiç Margosyan, who tells the most heartfelt stories of his birthplace Diyarbakir, its Armenians, Kurds, Turks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Jews, and the life of a city that has become history today, 'Beads of the Rosary' He builds an imaginary bridge from Diyarbakir to Istanbul, where he came to study. On the roads of "Kafle", each of their families became "berdan to berdan", scattered like rosary beads. Little Migirdiç, whom his parents sent to the Armenian seminary in Istanbul to enable their son to "become a man" and learn his "native language" better, sometimes this new It tells the story of the strange things he encounters around him, sometimes of Diyarbakir, for which he longs for, and his first love, which he could never meet, within the context of some political-social events, with a great deal of detail and color. The sad Migirdiç, who left behind his family, siblings, and friends with whom he played in the Diyarbakir "köçe", in that young age when he was a teenager, found himself in Istanbul shouting "Run, the Kurds have come!" When he enters among his peers who welcome him with screams, he looks at the future with both a little anxiety and a little hope...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)


Thin Cover:

Number of Pages: 528

Printing Year: 2016


e-Book:

Number of Pages: 461

Printing Year: 2006


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Aras Publishing