Every Fire You Tend

A poetic reckoning with Turkish history, fuelled by mysticismIn 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 Kaygusuz''s own grandmother, this densely lyrical and allusive novel grapples with the various inheritances of genocide, gende...