What the Hedgehog Said

“Refi Cevad Bey was giving an invitation to his writer friends at his farm near Kartal. My father was the youngest of the writers there. When we entered the garden through the wire cages where large kangal dogs with big heads were tied, we encountered an old man. While shaking the man's hand with loving respect, my father said a strange sentence that I could never understand but could never forget.
- They are still hammering nails into the piano, master.
The old man also laughed.
- They always flash, my dear Çetin.

After returning from Refi Cevad's farm, I immediately went into my father's library and took out Refik Halid's books. I found the article I was looking for in his book "What the Hedgehog Said", which collected his articles written in a humorous style. I understood where that strange sentence came from. “I also discovered the source of the warm friendship between those writers who were completely unlike each other.”
Ahmet Altan



Number of Pages: 1032

Year of Printing: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İnkılap Kitabevi

First Printing Year: 2010

Language: Turkish