“We are no longer lying. We still have a few secrets. But we are not lying.” Do people become husband and wife just because they get married and live under the same roof? Can children really be siblings just because they have the same parents? Even if the years sear your hearts, will that ember inside lovers go out? Do those whose everything is obvious keep more secrets? Şermin Yaşar - in Söyleme Bilmenler - unravels the seemingly tightly knit embroideries of a crowded family, stitch by stitch, at first glance. He does this by giving the heroes of the novel the right to speak individually. “You listened to everyone's story. "Come on - now tell me: What actually happened - how did it happen?" he almost says. A ball of secrets that unravel as the characters talk - Don't Tell Me. As the ball unravels, where do the ends of the threads come from? How do family ties tie knots in people's fate? What does what parents put on their children's shoulders do to them? Will those who sit in our lives like remorse ever be removed? What actually happens in those ordinary houses next to you? As you read the answers to these questions in the novel, a bitter smile - even a pitch black smile - will appear on your face. The writer does not read the fate of his people from their palms, but boldly pours the secrets in the folds of people's hearts onto paper. For those who know the bitter side of smiling - for those who have the courage to confront what is not what it seems and the inner face of something...
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