Taş Havan

by Memduh Şevket Esendal

Taş Havan

184 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Diplomat and politician Esendal, who served as ambassador in Tehran, Baku and Kabul, as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for four terms, and as Secretary General of the CHP between 1941 and 1945, was also a well-known literary figure. Although he was only seriously engaged in literature for nine years of his life (1923-1926, 1946-1952), he became an important figure in Turkish short story writing. He is the representative of situation storytelling in Turkish literature. His best known work is the novel Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları (Ayaşlı and the Tenants) published in 1934.