They Said Homeland - 2

In this book, which describes the place of the Anatolian people in the state from 1918 to the present day, their development, their relations with various layers, and perhaps their reckoning with these, the Anatolian people who contributed their bones, blood and sweat in the War of Independence. You will find his sacrifice, his humanity, his effort, but also his loneliness and helplessness.

As a writer coming from a village, I owed it to myself to write the novel trilogy called Dust in Smoke / Homeland They Said / Villagers, and I carried this weight inside me for twenty years. I realized that I could not get rid of this debt without writing. I aimed to examine the place of the Turkish peasant within the state and the foundation, its development and its relationship with various heroes from 1918 to the present day. Maybe this is a showdown; with exploitative classes, intellectuals and administrators…

I personally experienced the loneliness and despair of our villagers in my childhood.

He who served in the military for sixteen years, pulled triggers and was wounded on all fronts of the First World War and the War of Independence. I am the son of a peasant who was left without land, job and bread when he returned to the village. I spent my childhood listening to him. I can't forget the day I became a student at the Village Teachers' School (later the Village Institute) in 1938 when he said, "This state is educating you, may all I suffer, all the blood and sweat I shed be halal." Let me benefit from it directly. But at that age, I could not adequately grasp the importance of this; I only understood it later. Still, I added a lot of his memories to my novel.

I present these novels to the memory of those forgotten people whose bones, blood and sweat were at the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, most of whom are not even known today. My father was one of them.
-Talip Apaydin-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 374

Print Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Literature Publishing

Illustrated by : Aydin Toprak Apaydin
Cover Design :< /b> Emel Atik