Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz games He's the Ghost of Christmas

He's the Ghost of Christmas Past

those exiled to various leprosaria around the world and forced to find homes away from home

' Nicole Krauss

she is turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the Great Library of Alyssium

Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz games He's the Ghost of ChristmasA lyrical, highly allusive narrative by one of Turkeys great contemporary authors. In 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 Kaygusuzs own grandmother, this densely lyrical and allusive novel grapples with the various inheritances of genocide, gendered violence and historical memory