Title: Dawn
Author: Selahattin Demirtaş
Published: 2017
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
I picked up this book after I read the reviews about the author writing this book while being behind the bars. The book captures the lives of ordinary people being arrested while living through the political turmoil in Turkey and surrounding areas. The stories are about a five years old girl who tries to escape war-torn Syria with her mother on the boat, a suicide bombing shattering a neighborhood in Aleppo, and a young factory worker who is robbed of her dreams in an act of violence.
Demirtaş, the author has been imprisoned in Turkey. He is a politician fighting for freedom and equality and has written many short stories during times of turmoil, yet hopeful about the future.
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