Ayten, Mahmut, and Gulseren are young people living in the slums outside Ankara, Turkey, and struggling to find their own identities in a place trapped between city ways and village tradition. Outcasts of the Homeland is a story of migrant villagers forced for various reasons to abandon their agrarian roots and fight tooth and nail to establish a new life in the city.
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Kemal Ates paved the way for a new genre in Turkish literature, describing life in the slums or gece kondu which means "built in the night," and has received wide recognition for his works. Outcasts of the Land received the "Mehmet Ali Yalcin Award for Literature" in 1991.
Foremost Press gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution of The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey to the translation of this book.
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There have been many books written about life in the slums by authors who actually moved into the area for closer observance, but the results were still "outsiders looking in."
It was my goal in writing Outcasts of the Homeland to portray the lives of migrant slum dwellers faithfully from a "first person" point of view. I didn't want to just say, "I have been there," but to express that, "I have lived in their shoes."
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