Hasan Ali Toptas exquisitely weaves an enigmatic, mystical tale of memory and identity, displacement and belonging.
But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in.
When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous.
In an Anatolian village forgotten by both God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year.
Hasan Ali Toptas exquisitely weaves an enigmatic, mystical tale of memory and identity, displacement and belonging