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First of all, I think every Turk should read our own authors before the classics. Yes, most of the classics are valuable and meaningful books, but our authors write much better than the classical authors for me, I don't know if it may be due to the language, but the books are much more fluent in general. Let's talk about Memduh Şevket Esendal. I think he is one of the truly valuable writers of Turkish literature. The book he wrote is like a transitional book of the period, the narratives of the transition from the old to the new, the changes in people's lives, the fact that many things that were considered useless or sinful in the past are not considered sinful or useless in the new time, people's lives were beautifully conveyed in the book. The book tells the story of our character, a banker, or civil servant, who moves into a nine-room apartment and becomes a guest in people's lives. Our character, who knows many people thanks to this apartment, establishes a very social life for himself and ends his social life with only one person due to his marriage. I thought it was a good book. Although it is not exactly historical, Memduh Şevket Esendal described his period and the people in his period very well.