Yusuf of Kuyucak

By: Ali, Sabahattin

Sabahattin Ali's world-famous work, Yusuf from Kuyucak, is presented to you in its new, simplified and annotated form by TLG Publishing.
Sabahattin Ali's unforgettable classic, Kuyucaklı Yusuf, is the most lucid and heart-rending portrayal of the Anatolian people's struggle against fate, poverty, and conscience.
Yusuf's pure, honest, and unyielding character-crushed between corruption, selfish interests, and quiet cruelties-forces the reader to question the moral backbone of an entire society.
More than a love story, this novel is a meditation on justice, human dignity, and the price of remaining pure.
With his simple yet profound prose, Sabahattin Ali captures the scent of Anatolian towns and the echo of loneliness in the narrow streets of the human soul so masterfully that, in every silence of Yusuf's, we hear our own inner voice.
This special edition, featuring a new foreword and commentary by Tolga ağlayan, one of the most powerful voices in modern Turkish literature, reintroduces Kuyucaklı Yusuf not merely as a novel but as a mirror held up to humanity itself.
In his foreword, ağlayan defines Yusuf's tragedy as "the impossible balance between staying clean and becoming tainted"-a phrase that strikes straight to the heart of the book.
Kuyucaklı Yusuf is not just the story of one era, but of every age-
for all those who still carry a little of Yusuf within them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FXGHXT8P
• ISBN13: 9798271158353
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"