Heyulanın Dönüşü

Driven out of the country for political reasons in the years after the coup of 12 September 1980, the hero has passed over to the other world. When he returns from exile at the beginning of the 1990s, everything has changed. As a kind of spectre he watches the great changes in the country and in his own family, at once from deep inside and as a complete stranger, and lays out a panorama of Turkey from every side. Told in parts headed The Road, The Traveller and The Journey, with footnotes and asides between the chapters and in an ironic voice, the book turns the years of repression into critique and self-critique: of otherness, ideological moulds, political symbols, uniforms, religions and languages, life and death.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Türkiye, 1980s–1990s

First published

2011

Author's age

53 when first published