What Remains

An experimental collection of "proems" from poet and author Leyl Erbil, the first Turkish woman toever be nominated for the Nobel. In this remarkable novel-in-verse, a young woman named Lahzen comes of age grappling with a culturegripped by interethnic tension. Bearing witness to the mutilation of a Kurdish journalist, the politicalimprisonment of her lover, and the violence of the man her widowed mother has taken up with,Lahzenreaches back into the past, searching for the root of this evil. From the Byzantine Empire to the twentieth-century Turkey of Erbil's experience,What Remainssearches urgently for a way to escape these recurrent cycles of suffering, while preserving hope in thesmallest acts of kindness.Now available for the first time in translation,with an introduction by AytenTartici,What Remainsis a fearless, deeply felt collection from one of the most influential Turkish writersin recent history.