This week’s #SaturdaySentence comes from “Dawn,” the last full novel by Sevgi Soysal, the Turkish writer whose work is often categorized as coup literature. First published in Turkey in 1975 and now translated into English for the first time by Maureen Freely, the book begins when police raid a dinner party based on rumors of an anarchist gathering there. Its plot unfolds over this single night, following the dinner party guests Mustafa, Huseyin and Oya as they spend the night in prison, worry about their loved ones and grapple with their demons. Ayten Tartici, a critic and scholar of comparative literature, reviewed the book for us. “The ingenuity of ‘Dawn’ lies in its chorus of wounded, weary, angry voices from all corners of Turkish society,” she writes. “‘Dawn’ articulates the difficulty of a fresh start, or, as Mustafa puts it, ‘how we did our best to pick up the pieces of our despised selves and mend them as best we could.’ Healing is possible, not by jettisoning one’s character or ideals, but by allowing oneself at least a partial forgetting.” Tap the link in our bio to read the full review.