"The knowledge that most of our neighbors were Greek and we were Turkish was magical. An incredible, strange, and incredible discovery! It turns out we weren't all the same; we were different (Turks), and they were different (Greeks)!" ...
"The knowledge that most of our neighbors were Greek and we were Turkish was magical. An incredible, strange, and incredible discovery! It turns out we weren't all the same; we were different (Turks), and they were different (Greeks)!"
Mehmet Yaşın, who has passed his fortieth year of writing, began writing at the age of thirteen and completed at thirty-three. His novel, "Kindaşınız Pisces" (Your Kin, Pisces), which rebels against the normal course of time and the contested boundaries of identities, nations, and being the "other," is back on shelves.
Mehmet Yaşın's novel, "Your Kinsman, Pisces," receiving the Cevdet Kudret Novel Award will spark a debate in Turkey. Instead of individuals living in a specific country and bound to that land, this book now brings to the forefront novel characters who inhabit every land to some extent. Mehmet Yaşın's cosmopolitan, metropolitan novel types usher in the era of minority novels in Turkish literature. While we're saying that the "village novel" has been replaced by the "city novel," Mehmet Yaşın, with "Your Kinsman, Pisces," ushering in a new era, also puts the urban novel to rest. In its place, he introduces the "global novel" to Turkish literature. I support Yaşın's new, international, and geographically unbiased type of person. They are the first novel heroes of a globalizing world.
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