Aşıklar Bayramı

“Exactly twenty-five years later, my father was waiting for me, kneeling in front of my door with his aged three-string bağlama in one hand and his wooden suitcase in the other, like an embarrassed guest who suddenly appeared at night or an old creditor who had come to settle his debt from the past.”

First of all, this is a novel about the reckoning between father and son… A reckoning in which resentment, anger, feelings of guilt, and the desire to cut him out of his life struggle with inseparable separation. A reckoning in which the feeling of the lawyer, the hero of the novel, “Just like every son, no matter how much I resisted, I was defeated by my father from the very beginning” is always there.

Meanwhile, the cloud of a broken love story hovers over the man who is trying to resolve his “issue” with his father… Or is it two love stories?

The novel is also a road story… And a road story in the literal sense: We travel from Diyarbakır to Kars. The destinations of the long road, accommodation facilities, searches, checks, isolated provincial corners… Hometown hospitals…

But on the other hand, we are also listening to the story of a journey within memory. A journey that extends into the nooks of the mind, the corridors of consciousness. A journey towards the secret of the ambiguous relationships of his saz-loving father and the women in his previous life, where apprentices and admirers await him in every mansion… That is the real long road…

Readers will sense that this journey also stops by Kemal Varol’s previous works.

Aşıklar Bayramı is a heartfelt folk song…

(From the Promotion Bulletin)

Paper Type : 2. Paste

Number of Pages : 227

Dimensions : 13 x 19.5

Year of First Printing : 2018

Number of Printing : 1. Edition