Children's Books (ages 8-12) • Novels
Montsuzlar
Blazerless
Ömer Açık
Editor: Müren Beykan
Do you know who invented the alphabetical order?
In his third novel, the well liked educator and writer Ömer Açık is telling a philosophical story extending from school corridors to life itself. The novel challenges the often used alphabetical order and attracts interest with its narrative full of surprises. The writer invokes the forgotten power of words and raises the question of important concepts such as justice, freedom, solidarity using peaceful realistic characters. The last novel of Ömer Açık, whose children’s novels such as A Station Called Violet and My Dad’s Hilarious where he relates neighborhood stories full of hope, are greatly enjoyed and appeal to readers of all ages.
Overview
The only reason Veysel and eight more students cannot buy the school’s dashy blazers is alphabetical order. From now on they are the blazerless of the school. Well whose idea was it to place A at the very beginning followed by B and C and place Z at the very end? Veysel will fight against this injustice and an unsigned notice will create a snowball effect. Now, everyone including the teachers are challenging rote implementations. Will the successive questions brought up open the way to new ideas?
AUTHOR
Ömer Açık
Born in Adana in 1980, Ömer Açık graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of Classroom Teaching. He worked as a teacher first in a village of Adana, then in Mardin and İstanbul. In his first novel for children A Station Called Violet (Menekşe İstasyonu, 2015) he tells the story of solidarity in a neighbourhood. In My Dad’s Hilarious (Benim Babam Ömür Adam, 2015) Açık tells the story of a child with unlimited imagination who wants to wander with the winds. His novel Blazerless (Montsuzlar, 2017) questions the concept of […]Go to the Author
Specifications
216 pages
120x180 mm
1st edition: 2017
15th edition: 2024
ISBN: 978-605-9405-09-6
Barcode: 978-605-9405-09-6
Themes
justice • family • courage • school life • teacher-student communication • library • injustice • alphabet • poetry • peacefulness • debate