Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland

The story of a man forced to choose between his country and his love

Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland is the story of a man from Salonika on the eve of the First World War who is forced to choose between his love for a woman and his love for his country as the Ottoman Empire is drawn into the war and faces collapse. 

'When discussing actual historical figures, one should stress that a novel must also be historically sound and accurate. That is not to say, of course,that a historical novel has a duty to write history. However, unlike other authors in the genre, Ahmet mit does not tamper with the course of history;his plot and his storytelling are constrained by his characters' story arcs. And this too in a novel that takes place during a highly complex historicalperiod in which it is extremely hard for one to maintain impartiality, a period in history in which it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between thegood and the bad and the innocent and the guilty.' - Koray Sardoan / Kalem Klavye