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A writer-narrator sits down at his table to write the story of his uncle. But his crowded memory keeps giving birth to new tales, and each time Haydar, an imaginary figure seen through the window who drifts between the writer's waking mind and his dreams, appears, another story begins and the uncle's is postponed. A harmonica passes from hand to hand and opens each tale in turn: one belongs to a grandfather, Cebrail, who comes to the city looking for work and finds it under floodwater. The stories breed, contradict and collide with one another, in a novel built on the idea that a person is as awake as the sum of what he sees and as asleep as the endlessness of what he does not.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

229 pages in the original

First published

2005 by Doğan Kitap

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789752933637 (original)

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