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Gamze Güller is one of the authors whose stories I love to read the most. The last story book of the author, who was deemed worthy of the Orhan Kemal short story award in 2013, was published by Everest Publications and met with the readers. The work, consisting of thirteen stories, drags the reader's imagination into an uncanny place with intertextual features, dreams and animals featured in many stories. Gamze Güller also makes use of anonymous Turkish literature in her work, which includes two impressive short stories. The book stands out with its sincere language and different format features. The story "Cage", written in Sen language, is one of the allegorical stories in the work. The author tells us about the stuckness of humans based on animals. It reminds us of the cages we form, sometimes on the train, sometimes in the car, or at home. Gamze Güller becomes the voice of those who are bored with the chaos of modern life, those who have communication problems, those who are discouraged, those who prefer to hide in their shells, those who choose silence, the poor, those who submit to social acceptance and cannot be themselves, and our mute friends.
“You weren't brought into this cage, it was as if the cage was built around you. That's all yours. It's not so much yours. You want to get out, you want to get out of here every day. But you don't have the strength to deal with it. Do you belong here or the cage?”p.46