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In Ankara, in the days of the military coup of 27 May 1960, Mesut Akarsu, a young man who believes he has no family left in the world, learns of an uncle's death and reluctantly travels to Ünye for the funeral. There he begins to follow his suspicions about massacres committed at the start of the century, among them what was done to the Armenians. Struck by one family tragedy after another, the carefree youth grows up fast. Decades later, in the 2000s, he writes it all down: what befell his family, the coup and its atmosphere of suspicion and tapped telephones, and older crimes the country has never faced, whose knots loosen only painfully, helped by a few good people and some ghosts.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

599 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, 1960

First published

2013 by Doğan Kitap

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9786050916225 (original)

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