... and the boy lost his faith in God!
Yakup Almelek

Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-9944-0709-7-3

The eight stories in this book will take you on a journey through time and space: a fairytale world where a boy befriends an eagle, the Jewish quarter of Ankara during the Second World War, a ship sailing from Haifa to Istanbul, east of Eden just after the Fall, the peaceful town of Ion... these are just some of the stops along the way. Wherever or whenever the stories might be set, though, Yakup Almelek shows us that often a child can see what an adult cannot, that often what we think is good for us can hold unforeseen circumstances, and that sometimes we will never understand how our grown-up minds work. Through these stories, we come to see that often the simplest questions yield the deepest answers.

The Businessman
Yakup Almelek

Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-9944-0709-2-8

The hero of the play is one of the country's most successful businessmen. He bases his life on money and power... until the day he finds out that he has an untreatable illness... In this play, Yakup Almelek reformulates the dilemma of health or wealth in a contemporary setting. He notices that money and power are of no use without health. In his desperation, he starts to reorder his life on his own terms. He unites his efforts to be himself again, purified of past mistakes, with his search for a cure. The little things that he had not been able to see until then suddenly gain new meaning in his life, and together with the urge to settle scores with his past, they take him to Sicily, where the happiness, health and love that no wealth or knowledge can ever give are waiting for him in a humble guesthouse in a little village. Because nothing of his former life, a life where he had become a symbol of power and where he thought he held sway over everything, remains, because he has broken the cycle with a human approach, he reaches a point far surpassing all his hopes...

The Governess
Yakup Almelek

Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-9944-0709-8-0

Two women... the same time... different places... while one is bringing new life into the world, the other is suffering the pain of having lost her child. After a difficult pregnancy, Leyla Beyaz gives birth to a baby girl. The next day, there is a surprising, undeniably clear, confident reply to an advert in a newspaper looking for a governess: "I'm on my way!" From then on, the Governess will have an irreplaceable position in the life of the newborn and her family; she even believes that her own lost daughter has been reborn as the Beyaz family's daughter. As this play comes to a climax, just how important a role the Governess plays in their lives becomes shockingly apparent.

Tales of the Weird
Ercan Akbay

Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-9944-0709-1-1

Some men, somewhere in the world, equate the salty taste of blood with the exotic flavour of lust. For them, it is not the whys and wherefores of their exploits that are important, but their aftertaste and the crescendoing cadence they leave in the heart... Tales of the Weird contains three out-of-the-ordinary stories: "Someone Else" tells what happens when a middle-level finance director decides to restart his life from scratch and undergoes a terrifying metamorphosis. "The High Roller" tells of the three days of debauchery that herald a weak-willed womaniser's descent into the depths of depravity. "I'm the One Who's Bad" tells of a young concert pianist's morbid passion for an older women that unfolds as they are waiting to be rescued in a lifeboat after a serious shipping accident.