Surgical Ward 9
by
Peyami Safa
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1068209720
ISBN-13
9781068209727
Publisher
Thousand Horsemen Press
Imprint
Thousand Horsemen Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 2nd, 2026
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
120 grams
Dimensions
12.80 x 19.60 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Fiction in translation
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Surgical Ward 9 is one of the most raw and honest accounts ever written of a sick person's inner world affected by his illness and frailty. This melancholic yet strangely vibrant fictional diary bears traces of Peyami Safa's own childhood struggles, and its power still endures today.
In the final days of World War I and the Ottoman Empire, an unnamed fifteen-year-old boy, suffering from severe bone tuberculosis, drifts from doctor to doctor, unwilling to follow their advice. As his despair and incurable condition trap him in a lonely, fevered solitude, he seeks solace in a platonic infatuation with an older girl, Nuzhet. Surgical Ward 9 is one of the most raw and honest accounts ever written of a sick person''s inner world -his envy, longing, ambition, disappointment, terror, hope, and despair, all caused by his illness and frailty. This melancholic yet strangely vibrant fictional diary bears traces of Peyami Safa''s own childhood struggles, and its power still endures today.
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