Ān Sū-yi Āb: Persiska (Farsi) 1401

What does Feride Çiçekoğlu tell in The Other Side of the Water? A Greek lawyer who escaped to Cunda for his freedom, a Turkish revolutionary who wanted to escape to the "other side of the water" for his freedom... The unhappy but good-hearted Sıdıka Hanım, the unhappy but good-hearted Arab Mustafa... Nihal. .. Cunda: with its stone streets, church, people... Angry that its name was changed to "Alibey". (...) And most importantly, a "happy marriage", which we encounter in very few novels... Cesare Pavese says in one of his diaries in The Trial of Living: "The fact that there seem to be very few happy marriages is because novelists cannot find anything to say about happy marriages." comes forward.” Maybe because of this. The novel usually ends when a man and a woman get married. Feride Çiçekoğlu tells about a happy relationship that continues despite difficulties. In spades! At one point in those beautiful phone conversation pages, while trying to reach Ertan's wife by phone, there is an unforgettable surprise when he hears "... a voice he has never heard of, starting with 'Bismillah...'".