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"Nihat Behram's subject and style of treatment deeply impressed me..."
Juan Goytisolo
"This epic work is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious attempts to showcase an important subject..."
Hans-Dieter Grünefeld
"Gurbet is able to deliver its brutal realism not through schematic, didactic patterns, but through a shocking emotionalism-realism synthesis that captures people in the deepest places; "A novel that manages to fuse the individual and the social in the highest doses and present them together at the points where mind and emotion intersect and reach synthesis."
Ataol Behramoğlu
"Exile... An epic; The epic of despair and love..."
Sennur Sezer
"Exile is a document of pain transformed into literature..."
Reinhold Schmücker
"A meticulous narrative inspired by observations. A lively novel..."
Carola Samlcwsky
"Behram approaches his people, full of love, by carefully shedding light on the problems of the exile..."