Yaprak Dökümü / Falling Leaves
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Autor:
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Country:
Turkey (TR)
Book Theme:
From book to video
Publisher:
İnkılâp Kitabevi
Publishing Year:
1930
Reşat Nuri Güntekin was born on 25 November 1889 in Istanbul. He studied literature at Istanbul University and worked as a teacher and school administrator before becoming an inspector at the Ministry of National Education in 1931. He also served as a member of the Turkish Parliament from 1933 to 1943 and as cultural attaché in Paris representing Turkey to UNESCO. Güntekin authored numerous novels, short stories and plays, often depicting Turkish society in transition, family life and the challenges of modernization. His works, including “Yaprak Dökümü”, remain central to Turkish literary culture. He passed away on 7 December 1956 in London and was buried in Istanbul.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
“Yaprak Dökümü” is a social-realist novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin that tells the story of the Tekin family, a middle-class civil servant household in early Republican Turkey. As economic pressures mount and traditional values clash with modern aspirations, the father Ali Rıza Bey struggles to hold his family and moral world together. His children’s desires for a more affluent, modern life set off a chain of events leading to disintegration of the family structure and the erosion of old virtues. Through this “fall of leaves” metaphor the novel explores generational conflict, changing social norms, urbanization and the cost of modernization
