Seçme Öyküler 2. Cilt-Taşra Hikayeleri

“Eh!” said. “You ask me how I live! How can we live here? We don't live, we get old, we get fat, we fade away. Days and nights, indistinguishable from each other, pass by, dull, meaningless, without leaving the slightest trace. Making money during the day, clubs at night, gamblers, drinkers, and loud voices that I can't stand. What's good about that?"

From “Ionic”

What we need is not literacy, but freedom to reveal spiritual talents. We need universities, not schools.

From “Mezzanine House”

My whole sickness is that in twenty years I can find one sane person in the whole town, and the person I find is a madman.

From “Sixth Ward”

Sometimes in mathematics lessons, when even the air freezes and turns into ice due to boredom, a butterfly flies into the classroom from the garden; Children raise their heads and begin to watch the flying thing with curiosity, as if it were a new, strange creature rather than a butterfly; Just like that, we were amused by a tawdry bottle of champagne that landed at our boring little station. We sat silently, looking at the clock and at the bottles.

From “Champagne”

Countryside Stories is a selection and a reading recommendation made from the stories in which Chekhov presents the countryside, which he considers not only as a place but also as a spirit and a character, in various ways. In the beautiful Turkish of Hasan Âli Ediz…

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 14x20

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Media Type: Paperback