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Metis Fiction
Novel
13 x 19.5 cm, 240 pp
ISBN No. 975-342-424-8
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Prints:
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1st Print: October 2003
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Download high resolution copy
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About the Author
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Born in Bingöl in 1965, Niyazi Zorlu graduated from Faculty of Agriculture at Ege
University. He wrote plays and sketches for the state radio. He was honored as a
"noteworthy story writer" in 1994 in the Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Awards. He published
a collection of stories Şehir İçi Öyküleri (Inner City Stories) in 1998.
Rascal Lovers is his first novel.
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Other Books from Metis
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Şehir İçi Öyküleri (Inner City Stories), 1998
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Niyazi Zorlu
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Rascal Lovers
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Hergele Âşıklar
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Reviews
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A full-on revolt against all establishments of power and their lies, including the
education system, the institution of family, capitalist appropriation, coercive
conservatism, masculinity and compulsory heterosexuality… Rascal Lovers is
the loud and proud coming-out story of shantytown revolutionaries Zekeriya and Hazan
whose truest weapon is God-given letters and words. A riot of a novel, Rascal Lovers
possesses its reader with the boisterous joy of linguistic and political sabotage.
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Asuman Kafaoğlu-Büke, Cumhuriyet Kitap, 6 November 2003
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"From the first pages on Rascal Lovers proves to be an enthralling novel.
Niyazi Zorlu is an incredible literary talent. He mixes slang with the poetic and
the surreal and throws it at us. Only after finishing the novel does one realize
that this is also political revolt. At the heart of the novel lies resistance to
conservative forces."
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A. Ömer Türkeş, Radikal Kitap Eki, 2 January 2004
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"Even the first few sentences of the novel entice us into a different language,
promises that the text will be constructed outside the classical frameworks and
that words and sentences will be enriched with significances beyond the given limits
of language. What’s more, Zorlu fulfills his promises. ... A must read."
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Murat Uyurkulak, Milliyet Sanat, January 2004
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"A linguistic festival, a love story that leaves the reader breathless… A novel
that stands up to all establishments that corrode our lives, with its intoxicating,
enchanting, jolting language and no compromises… I want to dedicate Zorlu’s own
words to him: "Damn! What a beautiful daring!"
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