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Stone Sleep Book Description

"It's always the same story," he thinks. People get on, people get off.

I go and stop. I open the doors, I close the doors. I go again, I stop again. I get angry and honk the horn at someone. Someone gets angry and honks at me. The light comes on, I wait, the light comes on, I leave. I'll give a hand to the friend passing by." A weary public bus driver recites the Bismillah and starts his vehicle in the early hours of the morning. As the stops pass, the interior becomes more crowded with fish. Everyone who gets on board has different problems, rushes and issues, but they are hidden within... Will there be good or evil at the end of this strange journey? It will happen, no one knows...

Aslı Tohumcu gets on a public transportation vehicle, looks closely at the faces of the passengers and reads their minds one by one. Through a bus full of people, what is happening in the country, violence, sadness, despair,
It reveals a striking picture of lovelessness, lack of communication, insensitivity and many more. Stone Sleep is a novel of a journey that will make us confront the facts that are ignored, forgotten, and tried to be made to be forgotten, and make us a little paranoid...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)