The Fire That Consumes Us

Everyone built barbed wire on the border of their own land.

Lover, friend and brother bled on these wires.

Both the blood and the sky were common.

Wires separated; Those who were prevented from looking at the same sky turned into the ground where there was no power to draw boundaries.

İlhami Sidar, lives intersecting with pain; It tells the story of Narin, Rıza, Cemil and Nilüfer in The Fire That Consumes Us. In this novel, which extends from Istanbul to Diyarbakır and is set with the striking atmosphere of recent history, he invites the reader to wander on the edge of the deep gaps between love and hate, war and peace, freedom and captivity.

“Now I am writing these to you, after I finish, I will fold the paper carefully, put it in an envelope, close its mouth, tie it to the wing of a kite, and go up a hill and fly the kite to the highest heights. I will release its rope at the highest level, it will find its destination anyway.”

(From the Promotional Bulletin)