Bakmadığınız Bir Yer Kalmıştı

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

“Civil war is where the logic of all other wars is most clearly visible. Shoot your neighbor. The nearest one. Perhaps this is why societies that have gone through civil wars also seem to take the blame for all the wars fought in the world. This is why the victims of civil wars feel ashamed. It is precisely this shame, this expression of shame on the faces in the streets, avenues or now in this café, that makes that dynamism you just watched on the sidewalk obscene. Beirut is now exhibiting a deadly obscenity.”

Whether it is the civil wars that countries go through or the civil wars that individuals experience and cause to experience within themselves, the hidden theme of the stories in There Was a Place You Didn’t Look. Ahmet Tulgar tells in his stories the heavy burden that the inability to intervene or prevent places on a person who looks at the world with his own will. With his usual meticulous language, always making it transparent by reducing it.