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My Witness Is My Sword

• Saadettin Kaplan

“Bora Bey wanted to hold Elif Kız by her
shoulders. But he quickly pulled back his
arms, which were trembling towards her:

“Look, Elif Girl,” she said. ‘You cannot know
this feeling… We are engaged to our sword.
Our wedding will be on horseback. Our gro-
om’s suit is our shroud.
Our grave, which will one day be dug where
we will fall with a treacherous arrow or a trea-
cherous dagger blow; it will be our pilgrimage
place…”
This last word pierced the soul of that hopeless
love like a poisoned dagger…”
Those who gave their lives for the sake of “Al-
lah” and passed through the soul, leaving their
swords as witnesses, they drank the sherbet of
martyrdom...
Covering the period from the enthronement
of Suleiman the Magnificent to his death, this
novel is the story of history within history.

168 p. 13,5x21cm Paperback Cover
9786055094584 Imported Paper

Sadness Comes to
the Address

• Saadettin Kaplan

Sadness is the name of an indescribable taste
in Anatolia. Like the bitterness of pepper…
Burning, aching, sweating; Then it gives a
unique flavor, a strange comfort…

“Sadness” is a special emotion that we are
always “familiar with”. Like a hawk’s claw, the
lover’s sad glance carves us through. “We are
not familiar with the generation that does not
know sadness.” says Yahya Kemal. So much
sadness has permeated our souls for genera-
tions…

176 p. 13,5 x 21cm Paperback Cover
9786055822460 Imported Paper

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