A Farewell to Freedom

By Kurtulus Bastimar

A meditation on loss, language and the will to live, A Farewell to Freedom is a fast-paced tableau exploring the intricacies of Kurdish identity in a violent, changing world and the day-to-day realities of life during a fascist coup. Ahmet is a Kurdish student in a small village in Turkey. With the help of his sister, he and like-minded young people set up a library and begin reading literature and philosophy. They perform political plays in their forbidden native tongue. When tragedy besets them and their elders, they are forced into exile. On the streets of Istanbul, the world tests the resolve and ethics of a precocious gangster and aspiring novelist named Ahmet. His losses, loves, and riches amount, but are followed by betrayal, gunfire, and heartbreak upon discovering the maltreatment of his daughter. An end-to-end song of freedom from the tradition of a culture that encourages us to defend it with the weapon of understanding. -- Zo? Vald?s, author of The Weeping Woman and Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1954600127
• ISBN13: 9781954600126
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Doppelhouse Press
• Length: 256 Pages