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Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
International Bestseller Translated into 42 Languages
2020 Goodreads Best Novel of the Year
“There is a library in the middle of life and death,” he said. “The shelves in this library are forever expenses. Every book offers you the chance to live another life you could have lived. If you had made different choices, you would see what your life would be like right now…
If you had the chance to make up for your regrets, would you have acted differently on some issues?”
Nora Seed is awful. Her cat is dead. He was fired from his job. Her brother does n’t talk to her. Nobody needs him. He finds himself in a library as a result of bad decisions made in a row. In a library at midnight where time never passes, in the middle of an endless number of books… A different life of Nora is written in each of the books. The lives she might have lived had she made other decisions.
Nora’s mind is filled with questions as she goes back and forth between different professions, different spouses, different friends, different cities. Is satisfaction only hidden in the choices we consider valuable? Are we really responsible for every detail that goes wrong? What makes life livable? Can one wrong decision cost a person’s entire life?
Matt Haig, one of the valuable names of English literature; In this journey of Nora’s regrets, possibilities and the possibility of choosing again, she presents an engaging fiction that deals with the most basic human troubles to the readers who will accompany her.
“A contemporary age tale, today’s Wonderful Life, written just in time, while we were always stuck together in a world we want to change.”
Jodi Picoult
“A seductive novel written with candor and humor, celebrating the life-changing power of books.”
Sunday Times
“Matt Haig uses words like a can opener. We are canned.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sabahattin Ali – Kuyucaklı yusuf
The first edition was published by “Yeni Kitapçı” in 1937, the novel by Sabahattin Ali It is his first work in the genre of a novel. This work of Ali, who is the author of the story, is included in the MEB Secondary Education 100 Basic Works List. The novel, which was first published by YKY in 1999, continues to be published by YKY (Yapı Kredi Publications). The editor of the book was Ayfer Tunç, and the new cover design was made by “Nahide Dikel”. Talat Bulut, Derya Arbaş and Ahmet Mekin acted in the movie of the novel, which was adapted for the cinema in 1985, and “Feyzi Tuna” undertook the directorship of the cinema. The subject of Kuyucaklı Yusuf is the adoption of nine-year-old Yusuf by Nazilli District Governor Selahattin Bey, who came to Kuyucak to investigate the incident, and the later life of the child, who was left unattended by the murder of his family. According to literary critics, the character of Yusuf is considered as the harbinger of the type of person who migrated from the village to the city and could not achieve harmony with the city life.
Jose Saramago – Blindness
Blindness, which is not lost on those who are interested in dystopian works, continues to make a name for itself since the day it was published. The work, which won the Portuguese author José Saramago the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, draws attention not only with its mention but also with its cleverly fictionalized characters. Written as a critique of the period’s understanding of liberal democracy, the novel deals with the metaphor of blindness as people become increasingly selfish and insensitive to events.
The work, in which exciting events follow each other from beginning to end, will shake you deeply. You will begin to think about today’s societies in the face of this novel, which reveals the brutality of power and power games in people. Who knows; presumably, humanity itself will bring about the end of humanity, which is becoming more and more insensitive again.
A New Order Born of Chaos Brought By Blindness…
The events take place in a nameless city of a nameless country. Because who the people are is worthless. One day, an unnamed man standing at the lights with his car suddenly goes blind while waiting for the green light to turn on. But this is no ordinary blindness. Because his eyes are not dark, but light, that is, white. Confused about what to do, the man goes straight to the hospital. Blindness is unfortunately contagious. The physician who examines him also gets his share from it. Then, this disease begins to affect the entire city. The government, on the other hand, quarantines the blinded people in a place made from prison.
Things change from here. Because the government cannot control the disease. The number of blind people increasing day by day increases the population in quarantine. This will cause a change in the balance of power. Gangs begin to form in the quarantine zone. These gangs, who extort money from everyone, kill and rape people. The one who watches all this closely is the wife of the physician. This woman is the only person who has not been diagnosed with blindness. She went to prison by pretending not to leave her husband alone, and she is witnessing all the brutality here.
One day, as a result of the fire in the prison, people manage to escape from the quarantine zone. There is no one left in the country who is not blind anymore. They must create a new order and succeed in keeping up with this system. Well, but how?
Did you know?
Written by José Saramago in 1995, Blindness was adapted for the big screen in response to the interest it received. The cinema’s entry into the box office took place exactly 13 years after the publication of the book, namely in 2008.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov – Sixth ward
In this novella set in a mental hospital in a provincial town, Chekhov deals with the philosophical conflict between Ivan Dmitrich, a trained patient, and Doctor Andrey Yefimitch. focuses. While Ivan Dmitrich opposes the injustice they were subjected to and the terrible conditions they were forced to live in, Andrey Yefimich insists on ignoring them and does not move a finger to change the situation. When the doctor finally realized the “philosophical” mistake he had fallen into, it was too late. The Sixth Ward is almost the symbol of the “madness” of the distinguished Russian intellectual, who prefers to watch Russia and the country’s troubles from afar instead of dealing with them. The Sixth Ward received great attention when it was published in the November 1892 issue of the Russkaya Misl magazine. It is even rumored that Lenin was horrified after reading the work and said, “I felt like I was locked in the Sixth Ward”.
