"When you observe the world from afar, you see towers, mansions, galloping horses, fermented camels, steep mountains, bitter lakes, the Şahin Beys, the long hands of the Beys, their bellows boots, and their dogs, tied with stones, set loose. Be ...
"When you observe the world from afar, you see towers, mansions, galloping horses, fermented camels, steep mountains, bitter lakes, the Şahin Beys, the long hands of the Beys, their bellows boots, and their dogs, tied with stones, set loose. Beneath the skin of this world, which is thought to be nothing more than this, beats the pulse of its true owner, the river. Often, it escapes into the depths, even forgetting its own self. Then, at an unexpected and inopportune moment, it encounters its own magma. It seethes within, forging one hand on the anvil of the other, slicing its navel, tearing apart the crust in which it was buried with earthquakes, it sets out to write anew. All the work is in the majority. All the work is to remember to become a storm and blow instead of waiting for the bitter wind that will make the wheat sink. A skilled hand comes, reaches for the milkstone in the cauldron, and throws it out. The milk overflows!" Ahmet Büke, who recounted the lives of the Aegean people nourished by nature, history, and legends in his novel Deli İbram Divanı (The Divan of Deli İbram), approaches the story from a completely different perspective in Kırmızı Buğday (Red Wheat). Telling of people whose destiny is tied to their homeland, who bring life from death, Kırmızı Buğday traces both a historical and a social narrative with unforgettable characters such as Arap Ali, Adnan Bey, Uncle Gani, Lieutenant Cemil, Dünya, and Maya.
Red Wheat is another highly anticipated novel from Ahmet Büke, telling the story of these lands.
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