My Brother's Story

“Forget the past
, Put it aside,
Turn over a new leaf,
Save yourself from yesterday,
Become a child of today”
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a murder falls in the middle of the solitary life of Ahmet Bey, who was introduced to the most painful side of life at a very young age and was left without a family . Master writer Zülfü Livaneli reveals the anatomy of all human emotions and insensitivities such as
brotherhood, love, friendship, betrayal in the shadow of a murder . My Brother’s Story, in which reckoning with the past takes on a completely different dimension, is also an important contribution to our literature in terms of breaking prejudices and offering different ways of thinking. With this novel, Livaneli successfully blends the meaning and forms of love, “the noblest emotion of the human race”, with the element of curiosity, while providing readers with a tremendous experience. Livaneli, the powerful pen of our literature, tells not only the witnesses of a murder, but also the story of those who cannot live their present because of the shadow of the past. The novel in your hands is an unforgettable human narrative that allows us to look at what we have forgotten and remembered with the naked eye… My Brother’s Story settles at our bedside with its fluent style and gripping plot, as well as its surprise ending that leaves all possible endings behind. Having been published in numerous editions in Turkish and translated into world languages; maintaining its place at the top of the best-selling and most-read books list since the day it was published, My Brother’s Story has also won the appreciation of readers with its Russian translation .