“A life that begins in the shadow of a love ends with an awakening…”

Considered the first literary novel of Turkish literature, İntibah is a story of love, passion and deception. Ali Bey is a young man living a wealthy and comfortable life. However, his life takes an irreversible turn when he loses his heart to a beautiful but dangerous woman named Mahpeyker. While this wrong choice leads him away from family values and a peaceful future, it also paves the way for his own inner awakening.

With this work, Namik Kemal did not only write a love novel; he also put forward a deep questioning on morality, individual responsibility and social values. With its powerful narrative and dramatic fiction, Intibah has been immortalized in our literature as a classic that shakes and makes the reader think in every line.

A misplaced love, an inevitable collapse and the cruel reality of life… A story of “awakening” from the pen of Namik Kemal.