The Light at the Bottom of the Well
Novel · 2024 · 7th printing
Novel20166th printing
Kırkikindi
“Forty Afternoon Rains”
A woman returns to a village lost to a flood and searches for her house under the water.
About the book
After forty days of afternoon rain the valley goes under. Twenty years later, when the reservoir recedes, Hayriye returns: the ground where her house stood is still there, but nobody wants to remember which stone belonged to whom.
The author’s first novel moves between compensation files, court records and one woman’s memory.
From the book
“The state measures water, people measure loss. The two don’t add up in the same ledger.”
“A home is a wall that recognises you when you come back.”
In the press
“A well-built, quietly powerful first novel.”
— Kitap Eki, 2016
Book club questions
Use and copy them freely. Club guide →
- 1.Is Hayriye’s return a funeral rite or a lawsuit?
- 2.How does the presence of official documents change the storytelling?
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