Aile Mezarı

This is the tragicomic story of the Greeks of Istanbul who had to leave for Athens and of those who stayed behind. It is about a single person, but around him gathers a crowd: Terpsihori, her father and her husband Zaharias; the gossiping Areti; Mademoiselle Lianopulu, who also gives piano lessons; İason, the Patriarchate's lawyer; Artemis, who never married because Hagia Sophia never became a church again; the Russian brothers Feodor and Nikolai, who fought against Lenin; two singing Sephardic Jews; an Armenian survivor of the massacres; and Turks such as the beloved Ali Bey, the far from just Adil Bey, and Nuriye and her son Hasan. Through a family torn between opposing views, it shows how the question of belonging changes from one generation to the next.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

176 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, Greece

First published

2020 by Doğan Kitap

Author's age

80 when first published

ISBN

9786050969733 (original)