Şebnem İşigüzel - Ivy

That winter our lives would intertwine like ivy branches, and all disasters and evils would find us. While we were unaware of each other's existence, the coincidences that created our lives would unite us. Our loves, our sorrows, our losses and our desires would be entangled like the wiggly vines of ivy. The paths of Ali Ferah, a painter whose talent Picasso personally praises and who can no longer recognize colors, and Salim Abidin, a world-famous Nobel Prize-winning author who can no longer recognize letters, cross in a neurologist's office. This intersection begins to bind and entangle their lives, and those of everyone around them, like a vine, step by step. Is this the last novel of the Nobel laureate author or is it the enthusiastic narrative of the painter Ali Ferah, whose life is turned upside down after meeting him? With a unique fiction, Şebnem İşigüzel brings together the Russians who came to Istanbul to work in the presence of these two unforgettable heroes, an old lover who returned years later, and an unhappy pregnant housewife. As it is said in one part of the curiously read Ivy, “This is neither a detective novel nor a crime novel. This is a novel of coincidences.” Ivy promises a world in which you can enter and exist.