Mahşer

Mahşer is the novel of Nihat, who fought for his homeland and nation at the front and became a veteran, and who was so disappointed that he found himself on the verge of suicide after returning to Istanbul. Presenting the moral collapses caused by the turmoil, poverty and spiritual depression caused by the First World War on an individual and social scale, in a realistic atmosphere, Peyami Safa shows the reader what evils an idealist person must face in order to survive, starting from the first pages of the novel. . When Nihat saw the scene he saw in Istanbul, where he was sent because he was injured in his shoulder in Çanakkale, he realized that Turkey was now full of "innocents, clean people, noble people, virtuous people, sincere people, people with good intentions and big hearts, as well as disgraceful people, stealers, unbelievers, parvenus, lowlifes, lowlifes". He begins to believe that it is a place of apocalypse where corrupt people, traitors and murderers live side by side.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

First Print Year: 1996

Language Turkish