Terkediş

Abandonment is one of the brightest novels written in the post-colonial period in modern world literature. Terkediş is a human epic that tells the consequences of colonialism on an individual and political level through the interwoven stories of three generations. In Abandonment, Gurnah describes a country crumbling on the brink of civilization, the feeling of guilt that haunts those who leave the country, homelessness, the darkness that falls on those who stay, the values that religion and tradition preserve with infallible continuity and the loves they destroy. British traveler Martin Pearce, who lost his way in the desert in 1899 and arrived injured in a city on the East African coast, comes back to life with the help of Hasanali, a local shopkeeper, and his beautiful sister Rehana. Linking the story of Pearce and Rehana to the common fate of three generations, Gurnah heralds a new literature and world whose objective and authentic narrative makes an identity beyond ethnic-national identities possible.

"Gurnah aims to transform the collapse into a new dawn in Abandonment succeeds."
-Adam-Mars Jones-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 331

Print Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Contact Publishing

First Printing Year: 2016

Language: Turkish