After garnering significant attention with her first novel “Adımı Deniz Koydular,” Demet Cengiz once again reconnects with readers through her biographical novel “İçimde Yanan Nehir.” The novel successfully addresses universal human issues, centering around the life stories of Deniz’s twin, Yeter, and her first love, Nile, while bravely tackling overlooked subjects in Turkey, such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, and severe poverty.
“Içimde Yanan Nehir” focuses on sensitive topics, bringing issues like family violence, sexual abuse, and extreme poverty to the forefront courageously. Demet Cengiz’s work, born from her pen, serves as a mirror reflecting society’s overlooked harsh realities.
The book’s introduction took place at BPR Guest House in an impressive event that brought together prominent figures from business and society. Attendees included Ayşen Zamanpur, Sedef Orman, Sanem Oktar, Zehra Işık, Rima Kolbaşı, Emine Erdem, Cenk Akın, Nurdan Tümbek, Levent Erden, Orhan Tekeoğlu, Serdar Kuzuloğlu, and Selma Semiz.
Demet Cengiz, who previously exposed harsh truths like domestic violence, sexual abuse, and severe poverty targeted at children in her book “Adımı Deniz Koydular,” eloquently narrates the unknown facets and secrets of characters derived from her first novel in her latest work.
About the Book:
“Içimde Yanan Nehir” is written as the story of those who remained silent. It is dedicated to all the unloved, suffering children who couldn’t express or were not understood.
“Some families are not even broken because, in order for something to be broken, it must first be whole. How can something that has never been together before break?”
With Demet Cengiz’s enchanting pen, “Içimde Yanan Nehir” explores the life struggles of Yeter, who fights for existence in the poverty-stricken alleys of Ayazağa, and Nile, born into an extensive family fragmented by emotional walls. Simultaneously, it draws attention to the fact that the institution of ‘family,’ sometimes idealized, can be the beginning of its own destruction.
