Unutkan Ayna

Over ten days in June 1915, the Armenians of Nevşehir wait for the deportation order to reach them, while men return, or fail to return, from the Gallipoli front. Colonel Ziya Bey, an immigrant from Salonica, arrives from Boğazlıyan, moves into the abandoned house of the band leader Haçik and rules the town through denunciations, house raids and search warrants, remembering his own uprooting even as he hardens. The story opens with the death of Boğos, a pedlar charged with carrying a mysterious coffin, at the hands of a ruthless band. Through coded telegrams, personal ambitions and bureaucratic games, the novel shows how the deportation reaches everyday life, and how love, friendship and solidarity survive in hard times.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

277 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, 1915

First published

2016 by Yapı Kredi Yayınları

ISBN

9789750836343 (original)