Ağlayan Dağ Susan Nehir

The narrator, the daughter of a middle-class family, grew up on the fairy tales of Naciye, a Roma woman who cleaned their house. After Naciye's death she goes to the Roma quarter of Edirne to follow the secrets the tales concealed, and the story of a woman who spent her life trying to escape her own identity unfolds alongside Turkey's recent history. The book is about a people for whom settled life is impossible. Naciye was inspired by a real woman who worked for the author's family and sheltered her and her son after her husband was killed under torture following the 1980 military coup.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

264 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye

First published

2007 by Metis Yayınları

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789753425865 (original)

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