İki Yeşil Susamuru

İki Yeşil Susamuru follows Nilsu, a young architect who hands a written account of her own life to a writer to be told. Spanning 1978 to 1990, the novel traces her relationships, her fraught bond with an idealized mother, and her recurring pattern of leaving others before they can leave her.

At the center of the story is her relationship with Teoman, an emotional, idealistic environmentalist whose devotion to his own mother keeps him from fully building a life of his own. Around this pair, Buket Uzuner builds a portrait of an educated, searching generation trying to find workable answers to love, family, and the ecological damage overtaking their world.

It is, in the end, a novel about two people looking for solid ground — personal and environmental — in a country changing faster than either of them can process.