My Name is 1864-Circassian Stories

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

This book tells the stories of the Circassians who were scattered throughout the Ottoman country during the 1864 Exile. It tells the stories of people in different geographies, with different experiences and different pressures. Paths that are shared but also diverged under the identity and destiny of "Circassian"... Oppressed and identified with the powerful... Pride of identity and assimilation as a "Caucasian Turk"... Caucasus and new homelands that cannot be erased from memory...

From the "Circassian princess" Keriman Hanım, who represents the "noble beauty of the Turkish race", to the one whose Circassian word consists of a single word... From the "slave" to the "horse thief"... From the one who keeps an "Armenian orphan" to the one who is a "soldier good for his state"... Each of them is the nucleus of a novel. The “individual” life stories that contain the stories shine a spotlight on different aspects of a people's reality. “Even though his long Circassian coat was enough to cover his body, weakened by hunger, he could not hide his strangeness. Maybe he was a horse thief, a mountain shepherd, or a rebel slave… (…) When I asked his name, you told me “Nıbjoğ” with a bitter smile. 'What did your name, lineage, and lineage matter in this red apocalypse? You said, 'This glorious word will be the only thing left of us.' You, Nibjog, I, Nibjog, all the rebellious mountaineers, were now one soul, one name.”

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 287

Size: 13 x 19.5