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Publisher(s) | Dergâh Yayınları | ||||||||
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Type(s) | Short Story | ||||||||
Number of Pages(Text) | 144 | ||||||||
Author(s) | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar | ||||||||
Year of Publication | November 2023 (2nd Edition: October 2024) | ||||||||
Series | Turkish Literature | ||||||||
Summer Rain is the second edition of a collection of short stories by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. Published in November 2023 by Dergâh Yayınları as part of its Turkish Literature series, the book has official dimensions of 13.5 × 21 cm and contains 144 pages. A second printing was issued in October 2024.
The book comprises six stories centered around the titular narrative, “Summer Rain.” Tanpınar has noted that in this fragmented tale, his characters develop into independent beings, and during this process, he himself becomes, as it were, subject to their will. The other short stories—such as Surrender, The Pavilion in Acıbadem, Dreams, Adam and Eve, A Train Journey, and Summer Night—depict identities and destinies emerging from chance encounters.
Tanpınar writes with a language grounded in psychological analysis. The phrase in “Summer Rain”—“they came to me, they spoke...”—illustrates a narrative dynamic in which the distance between subject and narrator dissolves. The other stories are similarly woven with brief, intense, and subtly metaphorical narrative techniques.
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi. *Yaz Yağmuru*. İstanbul: Dergâh Yayınları, November 2023; 2nd ed., October 2024. Accessed June 28, 2025. https://www.dergah.com.tr/kitaplar/yaz-yagmuru.
Publisher(s) | Dergâh Yayınları | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type(s) | Short Story | ||||||||
Number of Pages(Text) | 144 | ||||||||
Author(s) | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar | ||||||||
Year of Publication | November 2023 (2nd Edition: October 2024) | ||||||||
Series | Turkish Literature | ||||||||
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