The story of this novel begins at 7:22 pm and ends at 8:49
pm. Aysel, an associate professor at a university, is lying
down to die in a luxurious hotel room in Ankara, conducts an
inner dialogue with herself, asking what use so much reading
and writing had been in her life. In the process, she recalls
her whole life from childhood on, in the framework of the
political turmoils in Turkey between 1938 until 1968. From this
perspective, the book is both a psychological and a political
novel at the same time. At the end, Aysel, after about an hour
and a half long discussion with herself, decides not to die and
leaves the hotel room on a misty April morning.
Lying Down To Die
International Sales :
German (Unionsverlag, Switzerland, 2008)
French (Edition Turquoise, France, 2013)
Croatian (Hena, Croatia, 2015)
Macedonian (Ikona, Macedonia, 2016)
Italian (L’asino d’oro edizioni, Italy, 2017)
Dutch (Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas, Netherlands, 2019)
Ölmeye Yatmak
1973
195 mm x 135 mm
400 pages
Full English manuscript available
“Lying Down to Die is a sound, complete novel which
skilfully shows the reflections of cultural duality over
the individual consciousness under historical and
social conditions. ”
Hilmi Yavuz
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