Aydağı

by Roger Norman

O gün, o cuma günü her şey olabilecek en kötü şekilde başlamıştı. Patrick, önce koşu yarışında bütün köyün önünde rezil olmuş, sonra da hayatında en çok değer verdiği varlığı kaybetmişti.

Pat-Arı-Rick kararlıydı, bazen bir koşucunun koşmaya devam etmesi gerekirdi. Yetişkinlerin hiçbir uyarısını dinlemeyecek, sessiz ve yalnız, koca Aydağı’na tırmanacaktı. Patrick Aydağı’nda başına geleceklerden habersiz zorlu bir yolculuğa çıktı.

Timsahlara saldıran arılar, insafa gelen leoparlar ve bütün bunlara sebep olan bir kobra...

Roger Norman’dan cesaret, dostluk ve mücadele üzerine macera dolu bir hikâye..

112 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2018

About the author

I wrote Albion's Dream in six months; Red Die took me 18 years (!), Shadowborne also went through many revisions. These made the dice trilogy, ghost stories in which the present is haunted by the past. Treetime was written for younger children and led to my fruitful relationship with the Istanbul publishers Yapi Kredi, who have published some of my stories directly into Turkish. Treetime is in its 20th edition in Turkey. My new book is a collection of short stories called Borrowed Voices, in which the only ghosts are literary.

I spent the 1980s in Greece and have lived in Turkey for much of the last twenty years. Before all that I was a Dorset lad and there's been an element of exile in these long sojourns abroad. Perhaps writing about the rivers and tracks and woodlands of the Blackmore Vale as they were fifty or a hundred and fifty years ago is my way of keeping in touch with the loveliest of English counties.

For a dozen years during the late nineties and early noughties I worked for the UN as an educational consultant and am deeply grateful to that vast, cumbersome, irritating and irreplaceable organization for the opportunity to work in some of the most astonishingly beautiful places you can imagine - Vietnam by the Chinese border, Uganda under the Mountains of the Moon, Nepal-without-cars and the highlands of Lesotho.

My English books are distributed by the Sundial Press (www.sundialpress.co.uk), a small and friendly publishing house with a list where a handful of living authors are lucky enough to rub shoulders with the likes of Llewelyn Powys and AE Coppard.

Anyone contacting me via the Goodreads website will get a proper reply, even if not at once.