Yesil Ada'nin Cocuklari

by Havva Tekin

Paperback. 13,50 / 21,50 cm. In Turkish. 160 p. Yesil Ada'nin Çocuklari romani, Cumhuriyet'in 75. yil dönümü sebebiyle Kültür Bakanligi tarafindan düzenlenen eser yazma yarismasinda Çocuk Roman Büyük Ödülü'ne layik görülmüstür. Bir Türk ve Rum çocugun savas sirasindaki dostlugunu ve barisa olan özlemini anlatan roman, ayni zamanda 1974 yilinda Kibris'ta yasananlara da isik tutuyor. Yesil Ada'nin iki çocugu olan Cengiz ve Yorgo o savas günlerinde sevgi dolu yürekleriyle dostlugu ve sevgiyi bize yeniden yasatiyorlar... Ve biz de diyoruz "Sevgi, dostluk ve baris sinir tanimaz."

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Atrona Grizel (Sov8840)]

In the past, I used to think I carried an “undiscovered depth,” and that thought made me happy because I dreamed that one day someone would finally understand and celebrate me. But the more time I spent among humans, my thoughts turned sharp and began cutting through illusions one by one, and thus I began to feel genuine worry about this depth. Not an inner worry, not “I am unworthy,” but more about how someone as noble as I could survive in such a deplorable society. I learned that people, as if by design, are fundamentally hostile to depth. What I feel now is no longer bliss for my depth, but the need to hide it paranoically to prevent it from being corrupted. Because now I know this: if society discovers my depth, it will not see depth itself, but only a “potential” to convert into productivity and exploit. When “misunderstood geniuses” end their own lives, the average person reacts, “What a great potential wasted.” This is because they see such individuals not as universes each carrying their own realities, but as machines designed to contribute to “progress,” or at least they imply it. A person who utters such words seems to serve society itself. They act as if they own humanity. Why should what happens in the world concern them so deeply? It actually doesn’t; they are simply blind to the values they carry. A secret they will never know is this: those “misunderstood geniuses” are precisely more likely to commit that final act because people can respond in no more than this narrow way: “They wasted their potential.” Am I the only one who sees that by making it fundamentally impossible for their potentials to be turned into mere “potential,” they are, in effect, slapping civilization in the face?

[Ezgi · Rating 4 out of 5]

1974'teki Türkiye'nin Kıbrıs çıkartmasını çocukların gözünden anlatması bakımından dikkate değer bir eser. Yazar siyasete girmeden çocukların anlayacağı şekilde açıklamış. Ellerine sağlık Havva Tekin

[Zeynep Sude · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect book