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Built on documents but shaped as fiction, the novel follows the life of the writer Sabahattin Ali and his friendships with Nazım Hikmet, Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu, Orhan Veli, Asaf Halet Çelebi, Sabiha Sertel, Vala Nurettin, Rasih Nuri İleri, Aziz Nesin and Rıfat Ilgaz. In forty-one years he wrote some of the Turkish books most translated abroad, and wanted for his country only independence, freedom and modernity. For those dreams he paid with exile and prison, and in the end with his arrest and killing in the Istranca forests by dark forces. The book approaches the facts of his life with restraint and an eye for the social questions of his time.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

264 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye

First published

2006 by Remzi Kitabevi

Author's age

83 when first published

ISBN

9789751411501 (original)

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