2019 · Stories · 9th printing
The Eclipse Notebook
Twelve stories, one night, one small town. Everyone is looking at the sky; no one is looking at anyone else.
Details
- Author
- Nehir Yalın
- Genre
- Stories
- Publisher
- Denizce Yayınları
- First published
- 2019
- pages
- 184
- ISBN
- 978-625-0000-03-6
- printing
- 9th printing
- Formats
- Paperback · E-book
Awards. 2019 Sait Faik Story Award
Translations
- German — Das Mondfinsternis-Heft · Nordsee Verlag, 2021
- Greek — Το τετράδιο της έκλειψης · Kyma, 2022
About the book
On the night of a lunar eclipse, twelve lives pass side by side in a small coastal town without touching: the pharmacist on night duty, a fisherman out of season, a couple spending their first night in a hotel, the only tea house open until morning.
The collection that won the Sait Faik Story Award is remembered less for its brevity than for the places where it says nothing.
Read online
Full text · Three stories from the book — full text · 6 min
From the book
p. 22 Looking at the sky together is not being together; it is only being silent in the same direction.
p. 96 In a small town everyone knows everyone; nobody knows anybody.
In the press
A language that makes the voices at the margin audible without ever raising them.
Sait Faik Story Award, jury citation, 2019
Book club questions
Club guide →Use and copy them freely.
- 01What holds the twelve stories together — plot or atmosphere?
- 02Whose silence felt most familiar to you?
- 03When the eclipse ended, what had changed for anyone?
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