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Tuna Kiremitçi is a Turkish novelist, poet, screenwriter, and musician whose fiction explores relationships, memory, and urban experience through changing narrative forms. Prayers Stay the Same is built largely from dialogue and brings two women from different generations and cultural experiences into a sustained exchange. Its formal restraint lets voice, recollection, and disagreement carry the novel without a conventional explanatory narrator. The book also reflects the international reach of Kiremitçi’s fiction, which has appeared in numerous languages alongside his work in poetry, film, and music. Prayers Stay the Same is a strong beginning because its self-contained exchange makes his interest in memory and relationships immediately visible. Its dialogue-led structure also offers a clear contrast to the broader urban narratives of his Turkish bibliography and shows how he shifts literary form without abandoning emotional tension.
