Hazar Ergüçlü

Shadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from her shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963...

They met at her wedding with another man and fell in love. But to stay together, they must defy tradition — and the bride's family.

Sinan returns from his studies in the city of Çanakkale to his parents' home in the small rural town of Çan. He hopes to publish a book of essays and short stories (or what he describes as a "quirky auto-fiction meta-novel"). But his teacher father Idris is an addictive gambler, so much so that his mother and sister have become reluctantly accustomed to making do without food or electricity. So Sinan, with his writing dreams, worrying that he will be reduced, after army service, to teaching in the remote East, wanders around town, visiting his grandparents, encountering old friends, all the while looking for funding for his book.