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We recommend The Evening of a Long Day and The Garden of Departed Cats to those who will start Bilge Karasu's literature for the first time. The book is the author's third book in terms of publication date and represents the period before 1980. We have put one of the climax chapters of the book here for you to read...
"Whatever I know about the game, I learned from him. My master was standing in front of me. But he did not give any information on how to play the game. In this game, which was very similar to chess, the names of the pieces, that is, us, were the same as in chess, the rules were almost the same. It differed from chess on one or two points. The president also explained those points this morning. However, no one asked if I knew how to play chess. It was unnecessary for the Purples to know anyway. Since I had played a little bit of it once, I didn't try to get away with it by saying I didn't know the game. I wanted to play, ever since the beginning, since I saw him, ever since he asked if I would join the game..."
– Bilge Karasu
Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi, which gives the book its name, 3 pages. When you wonder how it's over, a fairy tale greets you. It's actually a story that continues chapter by chapter, interspersed among 13 tales. You are reading a story that has no connection or intersection with other fairy tales, and each tale
