İsmet Bertan’s “Once Upon A Time in Anatolia” series continues with this seventh book. The story takes place in 600 BC around the city of Van (Tushpa with its old name) and its surrounding harsh geography. Urartu itself plays a pivotal role in the novel with its capacity to harbor many people from different languages and cultures. Themes like slavery systems, political power, ordinary people’s daily struggles and the creation of a grand civilization are woven within a cinematographic plot enriched with the lively storytelling of a master author.

Overview

Golden haired young man Orion, with his lyre and legends to tell, is on the way of becoming a famous traveler and storyteller. His life gets upside down when pirates capture and throw him to the vicious Mediterranean slave market. Sold to Urartu royal house, Orion manages to survive with his never-ending passion for life. In this journey of survival from stone pits to the arenas, Orion’s personality and talents enchant powerful princes and princesses. Urartu the Country of Cliffs’ future, is his future now…

İsmet Bertan

He was born in 1959, in a little village named Piyadeler in Alaşehir, Manisa. After graduating from Erzurum Atatürk University, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, he worked as a teacher for a couple of years. Then he moved to İzmir and worked as a documentary program producer and director at TRT (Turkish Radio Television) for many years. His first children’s novel Speedy Tosbi (Hızlı Tosbi, 2005) was published simultaneously with its picture book (in “Colour Your First Book” series) for younger readers Little Tosbi Looks for His House (Minik Tosbi Evini Arıyor, 2005). Speedy Tosbi was awarded as IBBY devamı için tıklayınız

Other Books

3rd edition

Korsan Kızlar

Pirate Girls
İsmet Bertan
2nd edition

BOĞA GÜREŞÇİSİ
Yeni Yurt Bizans

BULL FIGHTER New Home Byzantium
İsmet Bertan
15th edition

Hızlı Tosbi

Speedy Tosbi
İsmet Bertan
6th edition

Muhteşem İkili

The Great Duo
İsmet Bertan
4th edition

Şaşkın Cengâver

Cengâver, The Bewildered Hero
İsmet Bertan
5th edition

Hödük, Güdük, Bir de Bıdık, Rap Rap Rap!

Gawky, Stumpy And Bitty, Tramp Tramp Tramp!
İsmet Bertan
5th edition

KAPLAN KRALİÇE
Karadeniz Amazonları

TIGER QUEEN Black Sea Amazons
İsmet Bertan
7th edition

GOLAT KALESİ TUTSAĞI

PRISONER OF GOLAT CASTLE Thousands of Years Ago in Cappadocia
İsmet Bertan
4th edition

KRALIN ELÇİSİ
Bin Tanrılı Hitit Ülkesi

THE KING'S AMBASSADOR Hittite, the Land of a Thousand Gods
İsmet Bertan
4th edition

MİDAS VE SİHİRBAZ
Efsane Krallık Frigya

MİDAS AND THE MAGİCİAN Legendary Kingdom
İsmet Bertan
3rd edition

Minik Tosbi Evini Arıyor

Little Tosbi Looks For His House
İsmet Bertan