Pāvaraqīʾhā-yi Shinī yā Kinār-i Dunyā, Vasaṭ-i Sālun: Persiska (Farsi) 1404

"Sand Serials" is the first novel by Ömür İklim Demir, author of "The Book of Various Worries." Ömür İklim Demir presents us with a novel this time consisting of "sand, steam, and dreams." He wanders through the last century of Turkey, patiently weaving between the past and the future. "Sand Serials" is the story of the nook, of being stuck, of being buried in oneself, of falling into the distance, of not even being the other, of emptiness, of passion, of preoccupation, of Doctor Mithat, of Murat Hoca, of Aunt Yurdanur, of Şevket Kemal Bey, of the dead, of words, of the ticking of the telegraph, of dust, of wind, of clouds, of all those years, and of everything else that passes over us... The wind blows relentlessly between the pages; everything appears and disappears, or disappears and appears. Sand swallows edges, corners, cars, houses; It swallows days, calendars, horses, planes, and dreams made up of everything… For a time, dingy balconies overlooking the steppe open onto the Bosphorus; deaths gradually resemble hope, hopes despair. As every concept shifts and transforms, Ömür İklim Demir, who traverses Turkey's last hundred years, presents us with a novel that unfolds layer by layer. “I was playing with my mustache when the shadows of the shutters flickered and faded across my face; then came a muffled clap of thunder. I flicked the ash from my cigarette. The ash, burning like a ember five seconds ago, disappeared into a hundred years of other ash. This must be what it must be like to be swallowed by the past.” A good wish, a debut novel… “Sand Serials.”