The Furrow

Published in France in 2018 to major acclaim, The Furrow follows a French writer living in Istanbul as she researches the life and death of Hrant Dink, the real-life Turkish-Armenian journalist, editor, and peace activist murdered in 2007. The novel blends a variety of genres into a feminist interpretation and defense of democracy, and reimagines the conventions of personal narrative, reinforcing the first-person narrator’s voice while simultaneously disintegrating it through a collective a...