Zahit

When their village in the east of Turkey is emptied in the 1990s, a family is forced to move west, to a city where it cannot find a footing. In forty-five chapters that move back and forth in time, four siblings, Süsen, Nahit, Gülcan and Zahit, take turns telling twenty years of their story. Zahit leaves the family to join the armed struggle in the mountains; Nahit follows him into the organisation, is caught and joins a death fast in prison, and the hunger strikes in the prisons of the 1990s stand at the centre of the book. Crying and laughing, loving and fighting, the siblings keep shouting 'Life!' through everything that befalls them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

284 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, 1990s

First published

2012 by Can Yayınları

ISBN

9789750715631 (original)

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