Cumhuriyet Kitapları My Mom's Cookies

My Mom's Cookies

Zekiye yüksel / republic books

• Year of publication: 2026
• Page Count: 144
• Paper type: 2nd hm. paper
• Size: 12.5 x 19.5
• Language: turkish
• Binding condition: cardboard cover
• ISBN-13: 9786255660381

• Author: zekiye yüksel

"Even though the night covered everything, it couldn’t hide his poverty. His mother dressed him in layer upon layer, and they were covered in a thick blanket of snow. He hugged his mother, but his back was still cold. Only when his mother tucked his feet between her own did Mehmet finally warm up. His breathing calmed against his mother’s soft chest. He couldn’t sleep properly that night, and he didn’t buy his mother’s pretense of sleep. Behind his closed eyes, there was no image other than that dreadful circle. “My mother’s cookies, my mother’s…” The voice rang in his ears, ringing and ringing, until morning.”
From Zekiye Yüksel, the original and prolific voice of Turkish literature, come realistic, heartwarming stories about being a foreigner, a woman, a worker, and a stray animal in Turkey—in other words, about being “the other”… People who preserve their hope and joy of life despite everything, hearts determined to resist, and individuals who defend the sacred right to life for every living being...