The Language of Birds
The Language of Birds
Cahit Zarifoğlu / Nadia Romero MARCHESINI
The birds say:
“We don’t have a sultan. Can there ever be a community without a sultan? Can there ever be a country without a sultan? So let us choose a sultan for ourselves.”
The birds gathered and set off to see their sultan, Simurgh. But there were various troubles waiting for them. Some of them got stuck in each valley. Hunger, thirst, snow, storms, deserts, predators… In the end, only thirty out of hundreds of thousands of birds crossed all seven valleys and saw the sultan. Cahit Zarifoğlu describes this difficult journey in The Language of Birds.
Ketebe Publisher's. Turkey, 2025.