DUET IN PURGATORY

DUET IN PURGATORY
A literary written by two writers who have never met
by Selahattin Demirtas, Yigit Bener

# Fiction # Detective # Turkish
# Two authors who never met
# English sample available

170 pages
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★★ For the first time in the history of world literature, a literary written by two writers who have never met. And one of them is a political prisoner who lives in the prison!
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★★ A journey through the panorama of "confused Turkey", in a narrative that masterfully combines humour and detective fiction.
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★★ “It was a risky gamble to try and write a novel like you’d play chess, move by move, without agreeing on the plot, the characters or the style—nothing,” —Selahattin Demirtas, an author who has been a political prisoner since 2016.
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★★ “The book poses the question of reconciliation through two characters from the same generation of losers who share the same feeling of defeat.” —Yiğit Bener, another author.
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Major General Ayvaz and old-time leftist lawyer Sinan have spent their lives on opposite ends of the political spectrum. But when a common dilemma drives them together, they are forced to confront themselves and each other.

Retired General Ayvaz has just begun living out his dream of a quiet retirement in an isolated cabin on the Mediterranean coast, when he hears a startlingly loud sound. Seeing that a car has flipped over by the road, he runs out to help. A young woman, Berfin, emerges from the wreckage, apparently unscathed. She thanks Ayvaz for his help and scurries off, she says, to join friends at a camp.

But what is Ayvaz to make of the young man still strapped into the back seat of the overturned car? Why did Berfin abandon him? Ayvaz helps him out of the car, and learns that the young man’s name is Can Yücel. But other than that, Can Yücel isn’t particularly forthcoming.

When an explosion breaks out at the nearby Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, and Can Yücel screams Berfin’s name, Ayvaz thinks he may have gotten himself into more than he planned for…

Can Yücel’s father, a retired leftist lawyer, Sinan, who has refused to give up the cause and still works as a volunteer at the Association for Refugees, gets word from his ex-wife that their son has gone missing. Sinan, with the help of two old friends, sets out to find Can Yücel. Little does Sinan suspect that the trail to Can Yücel might lead him to a life-long enemy: General Ayvaz.

Sinan remembers General Ayvaz as the man who tortured him and his comrades. General Ayvaz was an iron boot that stomped out the revolutionary movement to which Sinan belonged, and the ideals of which he still believes in.

In the eyes of General Ayvaz, Sinan was a terrorist, part of a movement bent upon overturning the Turkish government, and putting an end to the Turkish state as he knew it. Of course they deserved to be crushed! As a devout nationalist, General Ayvaz was simply doing his duty—and if he had to, he’d do the same thing again today!

But now these two men find themselves entangled in something that they are determined to untangle, to help out two young people they both believe to be good at heart, and innocent.

This time, Ayvaz and Sinan are on the same side. But how is that possible? How can these two nemeses possibly align with one another?
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Praises

"Critics have praised the “funny, fast-paced and spirited narrative”, with readers rushing to see the free half of the writing duo as he tours bookshops." —Fortune Magazine

"Demirtaş and Bener, by performing a duet in purgatory, at a time when all roads to justice are blocked by lawlessness, have opened a literary path that pierces right through the center of that blockage and leads to friendship and solidarity." —Mine Söğüt

"The Duet in Purgatory, with its believable characters coming from within life, its intriguing plot, its humorous language that brings the two authors together on common ground and its unexpected finale, is read in a snap, but it seems to stay in the memory for a long time." —Ayşe Sarısayın, Oggito

"A 155-page novel, in which the political realities of the last fifty years of the country's history are analysed with literary rigour, by the co-authorship of a prisoner politician, a revolutionary leader who made a rapid entry into literature on the roof of a prison and is now generally accepted as a man of letters, and a good man of letters from his family." —Şehmus Diken, Ekspres

"The novel invites the reader to confrontations through discussions and internal conversations ranging from the dialogues of its characters to their conscience accounting, by making the reader experience encounters that can be considered surreal within the boundaries of normal life." —Fatih Polat, Evrensel

"Selahattin Demirtaş and Yiğit Bener met in great harmony in the creation of a literary fiction, and overcame the walls of Edirne Prison with creative inspiration fuelled by the longing for peace and justice, and the desire and enthusiasm to work together." —Behçet Çelik, K24

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