Set within the corridors of a hospital, Ülker Abla follows a woman moving through the complex and trialling systems of care work, institutional routine, all where bodies, labour, and authority intersect. 

Seray Şahiner lulls you into a rhythm of everyday life, until you notice the friction burn of pressing it against bureaucracy, class, and expectation. Between visibility and invisibility, usefulness and disposability, the novel is handled with a dry, often dark humour that keeps the novel from collapsing into heaviness. It’s grounded, observational, and precise; less interested in dramatic arcs than in the accumulated weight of small, structural pressures. This book is in it's original Turkish language.

First Turkish edition, Everest Yayınları, 2021. Paperback. Clean, solid copy with light handling wear.