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Dokuzuncu Haşmet

“The Ninth Haşmet” (title translated by AI)

İbrahim Yıldırım (born 1950)

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Haşmet Alçıtepe is a forgotten poet who lives in a very old wooden house that is almost a mansion. In June 2013 the former resistance fighter puts on the shirt of the football team he supports and goes out to Taksim. The novel is built around what he tells, as he shares with the reader his passions, his pains and his regrets, in a story full of football, poetry and memories of resistance.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Politics (assigned by AI)
Set in
Türkiye, 2013
First published
2015
Author's age
65 when first published