Selahattin Demirtaş

Written with Demirtas's signature wit, warmth, and humor, and alive with the rhythms of everyday speech, DAWN paints a remarkable portrait of life behind the headlines in Turkey and the Middle East - in all its hardship and adversity, freedom and hope

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This kind of book isn't really my cup of tea. But I must say it was beautifully written. It is truly a wonderful book and at the same time heartbreaking. It was very enlightened to hear about a place I have never been from the writer's perspective. Happy reading everyone!!… (más)

This is one of those books that you'll keep turning over in your mind long after you've read it. The author, Selahattin Demitras, is a former civil rights attorney in Turkey, who is one of the many intellectuals who have been imprisoned since Erdogan came to power. Demitris dedicates this book to women, and his political philosophy clearly sees women's independence and self-determination as crucial for progress in his country. The individual stories in the collection have fairly simple structures, but the world-views of the different characters make their seeming simplicity deeply complex. If you care about current events, if you care about justice, if you like books that make you search your own soul, you will want to read Dawn.… (más)

This is a collection of short stories written by Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician in Turkey who has been imprisoned for his political stances. In fact the book was written while the author was in prison. The stories tell about the everyday of normal people in Turkey. The everyday can be brutal, but the author does leave the reader with a glimmer of hope at the end. I found the stories interesting and the characters compelling. I feel like I got an excellent feeling of what life in Turkey under the current regime is like.… (más)