Author: Nazim Hikmet Publisher: Dar Safsafa Publishing Edition Date: 2016 Number of Pages: 316 It is an autobiographical novel by the great Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. The novel recounts the period of his hiding in abandoned places due to party pursuits, and reviews his sweet and bitter memories, expressing his adherence to hope and his love for life despite the harshness of prisons. Nazim Hikmet presents us with one of the darkest times in modern Turkish history from his sensitive perspective, observing things in a different way, in a style where imagination blends with reality and past with present in an engaging way, and a smooth narrative language that draws the reader into its folds, keeping them captivated until the last page. It is truly a novel worth reading and contemplating. A stunning text. Narrative techniques are at a high level.. The leaps between times, places, characters, and short chapters enabled the narrator to build a beautiful and renewed narrative/biographical form.. Love, struggle, escape, homeland, fear, arrest, hunger, traditions, poetry.. The translation beautifully conveyed the poetic fluidity that those who read the Turkish text speak of.