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Metis Fiction
Novel
13 x 19.5 cm, 256 pp
ISBN No. 975-342-550-3
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Prints:
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1st Print: February 2006
2nd Print: February 2006
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Download high resolution copy
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About the Author
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Murat Uyurkulak was born in 1972 in Aydın. A university dropout, Uyurkulak worked
as a waiter, technician, translator, journalist and publisher. His first novel Tol
was published in 2002. It was received with wide critical acclaim, immediately establishing
him as a new and powerful voice in contemporary Turkish literature.
Tol was adapted for the theater and has enjoyed a long and successful
run. It is currently being translated to German to be published by Unionsverlag in 2008. His second novel Har was
published in 2006.
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Other Books from Metis
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Tol, 2002
, 2002
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Murat Uyurkulak
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Har
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An Apocalyptic Novel
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Har: Bir Kıyamet Romanı
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Reviews
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"There is no fantastical dimension to Har. This country and this planet with
their suffering, oppressions, injustices and obsessions are fantastic enough already.
Perhaps all I did was to try and transform that fantasy into some sort of reality
in Har. In a country where 12-year-old children are shot with thirteen bullets and
stigmatized as ‘terrorists’, where civil servants who wouldn’t accept a kilo of
onions for fear of bribery are clubbed by the police in city squares while big time
murderers and thieves are considered to be heroes, and in a world where what’s happening
is at least as bizarre as these, I would flop at creating fantasy."
– Murat Uyurkulak
A sharp allegorical fantasy brimming with irony, Har narrates the stories
of those who fail to forget in a land where no one remembers the past. These hidden
heroes of the novel, the "crooked," are so by virtue of the many blows they received
from history: war (civil war), poverty, belatedness, earthquake, population exchange…
The second novel by the author of Tol
which won wide critical acclaim, Har has been received with similar enthusiasm.
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Nazan Maksudyan, Virgül, July-August 2006
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"In a sense, Murat Uyurkulak’s novel has refreshing bits of hope. As the masters
sleep comfortably thinking that they incinerated all the crazy ones, a soft lullaby
interrupts in the darkest, quietest night…"
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Aysel Sağır, Cumhuriyet Kitap Eki, 10 August 2006
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"Each section in the novel begins with a quote from an Anatolian elegy, and we soon
realize that the novel itself is a sort of elegy. We begin to understand that even
though a generation only learns about what the previous generation has gone through
by ‘eavesdropping’ and not via books, what has happened a long time ago still holds
power over the lives of individuals today."
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