A moving and unique novel about love, youth, and all possible futures.
Asya and Manu live in a foreign city. They have been a couple for some time. When they glimpse the possibility of buying an apartment, they begin to imagine what their future will be like. Both live far from their respective families, who remain attached to their traditions. But what traditions and rituals do they want to establish in their new life? While dreaming of the possibilities that open up after every apartment listing they see, after every house they visit, Asya, a documentary filmmaker, dedicates herself to collecting images of the neighborhood park and observing day after day, like an anthropologist, those who go there. And with almost the same gaze, she observes herself, her partner, and their few friends.
Acclaimed by great writers, Savaş turns the simple search for an apartment into a moving, often humorous analysis of a modern couple and the life of expatriates in any of our big cities with his delicate prose.
One of Barack Obama’s favorite reads of 2024 · Best book of 2024 for The New Yorker, Time, and The New York Magazine · Selected as a featured book by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and Dakota Johnson’s TeaTime book club
