40 in the Shade

2000 (Short Story) 2001 Yunus Nadi Short Story Prize

Defiance, adaptation or desertion: basic reactions in the make-up of personal lives, but how much power do they wield in transforming us? At the focus of İnci Aral’s stories are lost people through either a temporary or a devastating break-up as she beckons us from the shores of our own solitude, of our own self-absorption. She questions the depths of our lives once again as she charts secret worlds where dreams and reality are interlinked.