Sus Barbatus!

In the bitter winter of 1979, in the villages around a north-eastern town named only as Ç., a run of frightening events befalls people already caught in the political tension and insecurity of the years before the 1980 coup. Through a cast of villagers the novel portrays the harsh nature of the region and the social and political fabric of the country, setting the weaknesses of people trapped in the provinces beside their power to resist, and showing humanity's destructive mastery over nature. Using the language of the surreal and of fairy tales to give flesh to political, historical and social realities, it is a novel of a time when utopias still seemed alive and innocence still held sway.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

568 pages in the original

Genres

Nature, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, 1979

First published

2018 by Hep Kitap

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789750723223 (original)

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