Behiç Ak’s Adult Collection • Novel

İstanbul Senin Olacak
İSTANBUL WILL BE YOURS

Behiç Ak

Editor: Müren Beykan

Longing for the past is more beautiful than the past itself.

Behiç Ak follows the traces of a story that grows in the orbit of İstanbul. All roads in the city lead to a single poem, one where betrayal, waiting, literature, unanswered questions, unresolved confrontations and a hopeless love intersect. Those marked by the weight of memories and the past come together in a literary club, around a timeless dinner table. At times a flâneur, at times a time-traveler, and at times a southwesterly wind collector gathering the verses washed ashore, he walks through the city with many guises. The novel offers a striking social perspective on the identities we cling to, the things we cannot leave behind, and our search for immortality and freedom.

Excerpt

“But would it be the city that conquered and enslaved him, or would he be the one to emerge as its conqueror? Or perhaps, both at once? He knew he could make no concessions. He wanted neither to be master nor slave. All he longed for was to lose himself in reverie, wandering through the mysterious streets of this enigmatic city.”

AUTHOR

Behiç Ak

He was born in Samsun and studied architecture at Yıldız Technical University and İstanbul Technical University. He’s a well-known cartoonist, author, illustrator, and documentary film director. Since 1982 he’s been drawing the cartoon strip “Kim Kime Dum Duma” that criticizes daily life. His cartoons were exhibited in several countries like Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. In addition to his plays Ayrılık and Bina, his plays Fay Hattı and Tek Kişilik Şehir which were staged in Europe attracted big interest. The documentary film he produced and directed in 1994, Türk […]
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