Hasan Ali Toptas

Kuslar Yasina Gider

Gölgesizler

Beni Kör Kuyularda

Gecenin gecesi

Ben Bir Gürgen Daliyim

'I'm a barber,' he said. 'I come from afar. Across lands already forgotten...' In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in the dead of night, and the community begins to fracture. In a nameless town far, far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop as if from a dream, not knowing how he has arrived. Try as he might, he cannot grasp the strands of his memory. The facts of his past life shift and evade him, and as other customers come and go, they too struggle to recall how they got there...

Shadowless

Ben Bir Gurgen Daliyim

Levent ; Cantek

Baslarken Yalnizsin, Bitirdiginde Daha Da Yalniz

Olu Zaman Gezginleri

Sonsuzluga Nokta

In an Anatolian village forgotten by both God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in the dead of night, and the community begins to fracture.

Ben Bir Gürgen Daliyim Ciltli

Bin Hüzünlü Haz

Heba Midi Boy

Theater Rast Amsterdam

Theatermonoloog waarin de eenzaamheid in al haar vormen wordt bezongen en gevierd. Eenzaamheid als noodzaak en ode aan het bestaan, het dóórleven van dingen, mensen, plaatsen en gebeurtenissen in ons.

Solitude

Dertig jaar na zijn militaire dienst ontvlucht Ziya het tumult van de stad, op zoek naar de rust van een dorp waar hij fantastische verhalen over heeft gehoord. Door zijn gruwelijke en vernederende diensttijd, en het verlies van vrouw en kind in een terroristische aanslag, is hij nooit echt in staat geweest de draad weer op te pakken. Tot hij zich losmaakt en vertrekt. Aangekomen in het dorp wordt hij warm ontvangen door zijn oude strijdmakker Kenan en diens familie, maar zijn verblijf brengt hem niet de rust waar hij op had gehoopt. Herinneringen en dromen aan vroeger dringen zich steeds weer aan hem op. Terwijl hij met het verleden in het reine probeert te komen, merkt hij dat zijn vriend iets voor hem verbergt en dat zijn aanwezigheid niet door iedereen wordt gewaardeerd. Beeldend en indringend beschrijft Hasan Ali Toptas de verpletterende bruutheid van mensen, geeft de schoonheid van de natuur extra glans en doorgrondt de waarde van het leven met grote helderheid. ‘Verloren levens gaat over de mens. Over dat je niet kan vluchten van mensen, van de mensheid.’ – Sabitfikir ‘Een indrukwekkend verhaal.’ – Vatan

Verloren levens

Heba Hasan

Thirty years after completing his military service, Ziya flees the spiraling turmoil and perplexing chaos of the city where he lives to seek a peaceful existence in a remote village--of which he has heard dreamlike tales. Greeted by his old friend from the army, Kenan, who has built and furnished a vineyard house for him, Ziya grows accustomed to his new surroundings and is welcomed by Kenan's family. However, the village does not provide the serenity Ziya yearns for, and old memories of his military service on the treacherous Syrian/Turkish border flood his thoughts. As he battles specters of the past, his rejection of village life provokes an undercurrent of ill feeling among the locals, not least towards Kenan, who has incurred heavy debts by his generosity to the man who may have saved his life. Toptas masterfully blurs the borders between dreams and reality, truth and memory in this gripping tale. Like Turkey itself, the writer sits between the traditions of the East and the West, creating bold new literature. In his own country he sits comfortably on the shelf beside Orhan Pamuk, and his first novel in English is poised to enchant those same readers.

Reckless

Hasan Ali Toptas

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