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Abbara – A Story of Hope

by Ahmet Tezcan
[Translated from Turkish by İpek Kotan]
Published: 3 January 2021 [ Fiction by TPLondon: 3 ]

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“The author will lead you through an abbara in Mardin thousands of which connect streets, neighbourhoods and houses, darkness to light, sorrow to joy and from the visible to the unknown. You’ll pass through it for one has to pass through himself to find himself.

While Joseph discovers his real mother in the triangle of Houston, Matera and Mardin, you’ll journey through ages meeting queen snakes sailing through the skies, ancient prophets telling you their parables, and a living wizard who is going to discover the lost water streams under your feet.

Of all there three towns Mardin is the protagonist in this novel, if you can call it that. One of the main theoretical trends in literary criticism might easily call it a diary, a travelogue or a historical treatise. No, it is not a historical novel or detective fiction. Is it fiction despite all those living souls are parading in front of your eyes? Yet you need to travel to Madera and Houston to find out how a modern chimaera with two sets of DNA did to Joseph.

An Aaron of this age will tell you that “Each person is a hero in their own story. Each person has their own name within that story.” You need your abbara to make your passage from sorrow to joy and from the visible to the unknown. Start here and you’ll be looking for it all over the place – on the hills, in the caves and the monasteries, in the tombs – until we found them. Start here in Mardin.”

– Dr. Hakki Ocal

“Ahmet Tezcan’s novel isn’t just a narrative, it’s a travel book about the discovery of Mesopotamia through a touching story. Especially Bahe’s story… It falls like a stone on one’s heart.”

– Orhan Miroğlu

“If Hegel had had a chance to read Ahmet Tezcan’s marvellous book Abbara while explaining his famous “the real is actual” he would have absolutely had the adventure of the Spirit drop by the streets of Mardin. A novel that through beautiful design passes beyond the dialectic of the difference and the identity.”

– Dr. Gülgun Türkoğlu Pagy 

About the Author:

Ahmet Tezcan was born in 1957. He studied Turkish language and literature. He worked as a reporter and a columnist in newspapers. He created programs containing media criticisms for television. Apart from journalism, as a writer, he rewrote stories for children from Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi’s book, Mesnevi. He published short stories for children. He wrote movie scripts for television and pictures. Apart from Abbara, He also has two novels dealing with the military coup d’etat era in Turkey called Kafirun and Sarı.

Product Details:

ISBN: 978-1-912997-84-8
eISBN: 978-1-80135-002-0
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Published: 3 January 2021
Language: English
Pages: 201
Binding: Paperback
Interior Ink: Black & white
Weight (approx.): 0.4 kg
Dimensions (approx.): 15cm wide x 23cm tall