

The home appears as a narration and existence in the center of the novel. The facades, shoots, epidemics and mass deaths are mentioned at this atmosphere of the background of the novel, Home is the instrument of existence that stands in the focus of the novel. There is the collapse of the Ottoman empire from Balkan War to World War I in the background of the novel.

The characters of the novel who have to struggle to find theirselves and to reach their homes are obliged to realize their existence again. In this frame, the heroes of the novel encounter an uncanny world outside their homes.

Trabzon becames narrator and heroes’ home in the novel. The writer narrates the lives of the heroes who are forced to leave from their homes and to migrate. The story of Settarhan who comes from a city of Iran called Taht-ı Süleyman and Zehra who lives in Trabzon and is forced to leave from the city after the Russian invasion is handled in the novel. In addition she builds narrational jungle. She combine cities and civilization on the crossroads. The narrator does archelogical exploring with various and dynamic narration elements. The search of origin enables the novel to have a philosophical atmosphere. The narrator who heads for the search of origin persists the trace of coming together of her grandfather and grandmother in the novel. Nar Ağacı is a novel of Nazan Bekiroğlu published by Timaş in 2012. Being At Home (Heimlich) Or Not Being At Home (Unheimlich) In Nazan Bekiroğlu’s Novel Nar Ağacı
