Yaban by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
A disillusioned former officer withdraws to a remote Anatolian village after the war hoping to connect with the people and the national cause, but instead he encounters suspicion, illiteracy, superstition and indifference; his attempts to explain and uplift only deepen the cultural rift, leaving him isolated, frustrated and increasingly estranged. The novel is a stark, empathetic portrayal of the social and psychological gulf between urban intellectuals and rural peasants during a turbulent era, exposing mutual incomprehension, the limits of idealism, and the painful costs of modernization and nation-building.
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- Published
- 1932
- Nationality
- Turkish
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- Turkish
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