Cevdet Bey and his sons - Orhan Pamuk

An epic novel that monitors the political, economic and social changes in Turkey during the twentieth century through successive generations in the Cevdet Bey family, the first with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, the second with the death of Ataturk at the end of the thirties, and the third with the military coup in the seventies. When Pamuk was asked about the similarity between “Jawdet Bey and His Sons” and the Naguib Mahfouz trilogy, he replied, “I think I might share with Mahfouz the characters’ relationships with the place, the writing of neighborhoods and streets, and dealing with side conversations and conspiracies that women tell. But the matter is more general than this. I am concerned about the transformation of the lives of large families, where they coexist together as if they were a unified group, then the family disintegrates from the traditional wooden house into separate dwellings in a unified building .. All this constitutes my fictional world, which may be similar to Mahfouz, but differs from it as well. ».