Novel
Toprak Uyanırsa
Not translated into English
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir · 1963
Synopsis
The book presents itself, according to its subtitle, as the memoirs of a teacher from the village of Ekmeksizköy. According to turkedebiyati.org, it tells how an Anatolian village is transformed under the guidance of an intellectual; according to the Küre encyclopaedia, it deals with the school and with ways of producing in the Anatolian countryside. The plot is not summarised any further.
Context
The novel appeared from Remzi Kitabevi, in Istanbul, in 1963, and runs to 447 pages according to a bookseller's notice; the same house issued its eleventh edition in 2008. The bibliographies consulted (the Küre, the Turkish Ministry of Culture) cite it as the only novel in a body of work made up of political and economic essays, biographies and a book of memoirs published in 1959, in which the author recounted his own training as a schoolteacher. The book's reception on publication is not known.
Who it is for
A long novel in Turkish, of more than four hundred pages, about a village schoolteacher; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
A book reissued at least eleven times by its original publisher, according to a library catalogue.
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