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In Gördes, in the hills of western Anatolia, the novel follows peasants who read the rain and know when the wheat will ripen, in the years between the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic. The Gallipoli front and then the War of Independence frame local conflicts between peasant and landlord, merchant and great landowner, subjects and notables. While the rich of the Akhisar plain do business with the occupiers, the poor of the hills resist with whatever they have. With characters such as Arap Ali, Adnan Bey, Gani Dayı, Lieutenant Cemil, Dünya and Maya, and with İzmir as a port city where the classes collide, it reads the struggle for independence through land, property and class, as a story of betrayal, change and solidarity.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, War, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, 1910s–1920s

First published

2025 by Can Yayınları

Author's age

55 when first published