Кедер

Short stories that turn grief into a way of measuring what a human life is worth and how deeply people are bound to those they cannot live without. In the title story a quiet villager who cycled out to his small cornfield every day has died, and his family keep fixing his burst tyres each morning. The narrator explains it through keder, a Turkish word for sorrow, and an old belief that the dead leave their nearest forty sorrows, one for every day after death, the last of which never goes away.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

89 pages in the original

First published

2018 by Janet 45

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9786191863976 (original)