Daughters and Fathers
Who is our father? How much are we our fathers how much are we ourselves? What makes our fathers the center of our lives? Everybody loves their fathers; how many of us understands their father? Everybody knows their father, how many of us acknowledges their fathers?
Paradigma Publishing this time introduce you to Daughters and Fathers after Sons and Fathers. In our first book, sons told about their fathers, now the turn is daughters’.
In the new book of Paradigma Publishing; Daughters and Fathers; 56 authors search for their fathers while tracing after the answers to these questions and sometimes with broken hearts, sometimes with a smile, sometimes with anger but always with love. Each of them rediscovers life, their fathers and themselves from the point of view of that little girl holding dad’s hand.
56 woman writers each of whom is acclaimed in their profession go back to her childhood and they write about their father as a human with memories carried forth: Our memories of our fathers are more important than who our fathers were.
56 daughters. 56 fathers
Lawyer, tutor, retired, novelist, story writer, musician, politician, businesswoman, poet, transcripter, journalist, broadcaster, film-maker, publisher etc. 56 woman from different occupations, ideologies, generations, cities and countries. And portraits of 56 fathers as different as them: My each thought tell about dad, each different from the other.
There are daughter-father memoies which sometimes saddens, sometimes makes you smile and real daughter-father stories which are warm as teardrops and intimate with questions such as “What is it to be a dad”, “what kind of a relationship between daughter and father”. But at the background there is social history of Tukey always suffering from aches of changing: First years of republic, single party era, Anatolia in poverty in years of wars, military coups, youth movements, years of suffering before eighties, the damned September 12, urbanization, Kurds, head scarf etc. From Izmir, Mardin, Diyarbakir, Eskisehir, Bursa, İstanbul, Erzincan, Çanakkale, Ankara, Kırsehir... Little girls from the all the corners of the country, even from Urdun, Kazakhistan, Komotini and their loving, hero, despot, far away, bored, shy, funny, various kinds of fathers.
In the book edited by Gökhan Yavuz Demir and Alper Kanca, you can find daughters successful in their fields like Anjelika Akbar, Nazlı Eray, Feyza Hepçilingirler, Cihan Aktaş, Nazan Bekiroğlu, Işıl Özgentürk, Meral Akşener, Nilgün Türkler Soydan, Bilge Egemen, Mehveş Evin and on... However, along with famous daughters and fathers, many unknown daughters and fathers have a place among the pages of the book. It is because daughters whatever their professions are are keen on writing about their fathers more and they show the same care they give to their fathers for their writings about fathers as well.
Thanks to these real daughter and father stories, daughters or fathers can compherend what is well bound or what lacks in their relationship and later on you may understand your father, your daughter, your self better.
In a Turkey; in which ideologies, towns, opportunities, rythm of life change; while you reckon how much “daughter-father” relationship has changed, you can realize how much Turkey change through the changes in the relationship of “daughter-father”.
While wandering among the pages, sometimes you will become that little girl; but sometimes your father will be embodied in the father you read and you will discover that the beautifulness that you thought you forgot has not decayed inside you.
It is the most meaningful and pretty Father’s Day gift from a daughter to a father. We wish you all a good Father’s Day.
For those who say that “My father is the only one”...