Description: A metaphorical love story that grapples with memory, storytelling, and vengeance in a time of war.
Brief description: Kemal Varol began his literary career as a poet. Wûf (originally titled Haw) received the Cevdet Kudret Literature Prize and the Bursa Contemporary Journalists' Association 2015 Peace Prize.
Review Quotes: [Wûf] proves its author to be as strong an emerging talent as Elif Shafak or Orhan Pamuk were upon their anglophone debuts...Wûf is an excellent contribution to the literary consideration of war's many damages and will no doubt continue to be an important cultural referent for the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in the Turkish cultural imagination. I won't be surprised to see it on 2020's 'best of' lists.-- "World Literature Today" (6/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)