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In the Shadow of Geraniums
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Ferruh Gun
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the Shadow of Geraniums: Stories of Roads, Labor, and Waiting is a literary short-story collection about ordinary people carrying extraordinary inner burdens.
Across ten stories, Ferruh Gün follows clerks, workers, villagers, travelers, mothers, craftsmen, patients, and dreamers as they move through spaces shaped by labor, memory, waiting, and hope. A lost letter opens a quiet door between two lonely lives. Hidden wartime correspondence reveals the emotional memory of a town. A hospital waiting room becomes a temporary community of strangers. Seven tons of olives carry a family's hopes, debts, and dignity. A creaking factory machine, a night shift, a village under pressure, and a Silk Road journey each reveal different forms of patience and resilience.
These stories are rooted in human detail: the smell of damp stairwells, the silence of hospital corridors, the weight of harvest crates, the rhythm of machines, the ache of postponed dreams, and the small gestures by which people help one another endure.
This is a book for readers who enjoy literary fiction, short stories, cultural memory, human relationships, social observation, and emotionally grounded storytelling.
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