İthaki Yayınları Ankara Mahpusu

The city was full of thousands of wretches, thousands of failures, crawling on the streets, lying under the bridge, perching in plots, in pits, in hollows... No one knew where the lonely people, the only people in this bustling city, went. while studying medicine, vasfi falls in love with a girl named zeynep in his neighborhood. Vasfi, who sees nothing but zeynep's love, is devastated when she marries her older uncle. Vasfi, who never lets dust settle on zeynep, learns one day that his cousin is plotting to expose zeynep's secrets. without hesitation or second thought, he kills his cousin for zeynep. After many years of imprisonment, vasfi regains his freedom and tries to find a place for himself among people. Vasfi, who has nothing to hold on to, now has neither money nor a place to stay nor anyone. The only place for vasfi is the streets... suat derviş's novel, which is considered the first turkish novel published in france in 1957 and published in turkey under the title "for zeynep," is first published in turkey in 1968 under the title ankara prisoner. In this work, which has been translated into 18 languages, suat derviş writes the story of hope and freedom through vasfi, who gave up his freedom for a love. Suat derviş also paints a thought-provoking portrait of the story of people who could not find their place in a new system established in place of a collapsed empire. For the first time, the writer, different from his other works, blinks hope and happiness in this work. (from the promotional flyer)