The House at the End of the Road

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The wisteria has wrapped around the entire facade, climbed three floors up to the roof, and branches with clusters of flowers are hanging down from the roof. He thinks about the balconies behind him, and the wide windows opening onto those balconies. Who’s inside? Those who left, those who stayed… The children have grown up, the young have mingled with the young, who knows where they are. Hope? A forbidden zone. The geography of crime and sin where the barbed wires of the forbidden zone make his insides bleed every time he remembers it, and where he immediately moves away to suppress the pain.”

A country, a city, a neighborhood, and a house: The house with the wisteria at the end of the road. Is it possible to break the chain of fate of the country’s century-old history? Will the child who came from far away be able to achieve what all its residents have tried and failed to do for years? Or will she, like all the other victims who emerged from this family apartment, be another link in the chain?

Oya Baydar draws a map of the country’s last hundred years with lines that begin with an assassination in 1913 and intersect in the same apartment building in the 1960s. The House at the End of the Road is a panorama of Turkey in which everyone who reads it will find something for themselves.

Editor: Mustafa Çevikdoğan