Kül Ormanı

What Others Are Saying About Kül Ormanı

• “In a hidden Aegean village where the sea remembers more than the living, a young woman named Azra listens to waves that carry ghosts, stories, and scars. In an idiom that blends lyric with the cadences of folk storytelling and the engagement of ecological writing, Kül Ormanı unfolds in a world where fragments of myth, from Simurgh to Lilith, are reshaped by the presence of the ghostly sailor Elmados. As the sea returns what cannot be forgotten, the novel magically binds the reader to an endangered natural world.”

  — ERDAĞ GÖKNAR, Translator of Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red

• “Güzide Ertürk’s Kül Ormanı is thoroughly enchanting and captivating. What seems at first to be a Turkish fairy tale becomes an adventure torn from the pages of The Arabian Nights , as told by Gabriel García Márquez. Every twist in the story takes you deeper into a magical, watery world you’ll be reluctant to leave.”

  — MICHAEL N. MCGREGOR, Author of Pure Life: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax

• “At once lyrical and imaginative, funny and profound, Kül Ormanı is an arresting novel full of ghosts and spirits, magic and wisdom. This debut marks the arrival of a singular, innovative new voice.”

  — GABRIEL URZA, Author of The Silver State and All That Followed