2024 · Novel · 7th printing
Where the water withdraws, the earth gives back everything it hid, one thing at a time; it does not hurry — it sends the smell first.
— The Light at the Bottom of the Well
The first page
Original
Suyun çekildiği yerde toprak, sakladığı her şeyi teker teker geri verir; acele etmez, önce kokusunu gönderir.
Selma Akkuş bunu ilk kez otuz yıl önce, Konya Ovası'nda bir sondaj kuyusunun başında öğrenmişti. Ekip şefi, elini toprağa sürüp parmaklarını burnuna götürmüş, "İki metre daha," demişti. Selma o zamanlar genç bir hidrolog olarak sayılara güveniyordu; kokuya değil. İki metre sonra su çıktığında hiçbir şey söylememiş, akşam çadırda not defterine tek satır yazmıştı: *Ölçüm doğruydu ama önce o bildi.*
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Complete stories and opening chapters from the novels. Your typeface, size and paper settings are remembered, and the reader picks up where you left off.
- 01The Light at the Bottom of the WellSample chapter · 7 minSample chapter7 min
- 02The Eclipse NotebookFull text · 6 minFull text6 min
- 03The Wind GatherersSample chapter · 3 minSample chapter3 min
- 04The Last Letter WriterFull text · 3 minFull text3 min
- 05The Bird at the WindowSample chapter · 2 minSample chapter2 min
Published
See allDrought is not the rain stopping. Drought is nobody waiting for rain any more.
From the notebook
All postsOn writing in the morning
Not because I like getting up at half past five, but because at that hour nobody wants anything from me.
- The well notebooks: where a novel comes from
- Reader letters, and not being able to reply
- The same wind in eight languages
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Nehir Yalın
Novelist and short story writer — b. 1978, Sinop
Nehir Yalın was born in Sinop in 1978. She studied Turkish literature at Istanbul University and spent eleven years on the culture desk of a daily newspaper.
Her first book, The Silent Map, appeared in 2013. Her novels — Kırkikindi, The Wind Gatherers and The Light at the Bottom of the Well — have gone through dozens of printings in Turkey and been translated into eight languages.
2016 Yunus Nadi Novel Prize — finalist · 2019 Sait Faik Story Award · 2022 Dünya Kitap Book of the Year · 2023 Turkish Publishers Association Freedom of Thought Award