Product details
- ISBN 9781836750192
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Akoya Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
'Everywhere in the wilderness I hear the cries of other mothers. I call back to them, asking for help, but sometimes they can’t hear me through their own cries’
A forty-day journey of trial and transformation has meaning in many cultures, including in Savaş’s own. In this candid, tender essay, she charts a path through an unknown landscape – the first forty days of motherhood – in search of herself and the words for what has happened to her, following the birth of her baby.
Ayşegül Savaş is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Walking on the Ceiling, White on White and The Anthropologists, and the short story collection Long Distance. Her work has been translated to over a dozen languages. Originally from Turkey, she lives in Paris. The Wilderness is Savaş’s debut work of non-fiction.
