A Light in the Dark

"Towards the end of September, Artvin suddenly becomes lively. The city, which is noticeably deserted in the summer months, is filled with thousands of students coming from villages and towns, and people can hardly fit into the narrow streets and avenues. A liveliness and movement begins in every corner, and Artvin has now become a city of students... Why is it a city of students, why is it at the top of the reading list, why are these people so fond of reading and teaching? The terrain of Artvin, which has a rugged structure, suddenly begins to rise as you go a little further inland from the Black Sea coast. Mountains, hills, rocks piled up on each other form Karçal and other elevations, one of the legendary points of the region. Every side is broken, every side is fragmented, as if all the hills, mountains, and rocks of the earth are gathered here... And hundreds of villages, tens of thousands of families struggling to survive on a single span of land..."



Number of Pages: 522

Year of Publication: 1999


Language: Turkish
Publishing House: Belge Publications

Year of First Printing: 1999

Number of Pages: 522

Language: Turkish