Pakize Barışta
Taraf Newspaper, September 15, 2009

Hakan Yaman’s second novel The Women in the photograph is a novel trying to push the darkness. The solitude, we find in The Women in the photograph is rather different from the loneliness themes we come across in Western Literatures, because Hakan Yaman is telling our solitude to us. This is a solitude coming from the inside of beings, not outside:

“There was somebody smaller, thinner and weedy inside of me. Somebody more helpless, more ashamed, more embarrassed… more unloved, more introvert, more intellectual, reading more, more sensitive, somebody carrying the whole world on his shoulders,  somebody whose hip is more devoted than mine.”