We were as beautiful as we were

We Were Beautiful As We Were Book Description You don't want anyone around you, but you keep complaining about loneliness. It takes people to even complain about something. This is such a tricky thing. Those who are educated, those who cannot, their lives in the mire of poverty; domestic quarrels, those who leave, those who are abandoned; innocent lives wasted. Or those who tried to forget the lover who made their life a misery and experienced something different at a stranger's wedding. Those who bring water from a thousand streams to grow and make a living. Those who chase a ball, those who knit their daughter's dowry... Those who return to the past, to their high school years, with a hitchhike, and dreams that are turned upside down by chance. Tea gardens, wedding halls, narrow house interiors, songs and cries echoing in their windows. Bandırma, Erdek, Susurluk, Samsun and streets, streets... Mahir Ünsal Eriş was deemed worthy of the 2014 Sait Faik Story Award for his second story book, As Beautiful as It Was, and made his name among the most original and most loved writers of his generation. He created a wide fan base with his narration of the big feelings of little people, his sincerity and endless sensitivity. We Were Beautiful As We Are is one of the unforgettable books of our literature, full of love of life despite all the sadness, hopelessness and pain that it deals with in detail. (From the Promotional Bulletin)