Kul

Mercan makes her living by mopping the stairwells of apartment buildings. First urban renewal scatters her friends from the neighbourhood, then her husband leaves home, and she grows more and more alone. Still she defends the good-for-nothing man, makes vows and visits shrines so that he will come back, and wants a child rather than a career. The novel follows her struggle to exist as a woman on her own, her delusions, hopes and disappointments, and how the discourses, ideologies and beliefs around her shape her as she tries to find her own way without ever quite giving in, told with quiet humour against the background of a changing city.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

Türkiye

First published

2017 by Can Yayınları

Author's age

33 when first published