Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz games for a memoir and a

for a memoir and a new novel

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those exiled to various leprosaria around the world and forced to find homes away from home

After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return

' Nicole Krauss

Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz games for a memoir and aA lyrical, highly allusive narrative by one of Turkeys great contemporary authors. In 1938, in the remote Dersim region of Eastern Anatolia, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to erase an entire community of Zaza speaking Alevi Kurds. Inspired by those brutal events, and the survival of Kaygusuzs own grandmother, this densely lyrical and allusive novel grapples with the various inheritances of genocide, gendered violence and historical memory