Almost half a century after the death of Irfan Orga,
author of the highly acclaimed cult memoir Portrait
of a Turkish Family, his son, Ates Orga, opened an old attach case and
found a coffee-stained typescript tied up with string.
Dark
Journey springs from a sombre understanding of the
ambivalence of human nature, a metaphor, perhaps, for the exiled Orgas Turkish
republican homeland, a survivor born from the tattered remnants of an empire
that had been brutalized, occupied and betrayed.
Dark
Journey is a disturbing, fast-paced story of a young Turkish
womans descent towards moral annihilation one part Maupassant, one part One Thousand and One Nights and one part
Oedipus and Jocasta.
