"If you hadn't called me so, I wouldn't have come like this..."

Spanning the tumultuous years from the Balkan Wars to World War I, The Pomegranate Tree (Nar Ağacı) traces a magnificent journey across the Trabzon-Tabriz-Tbilisi-Batumi-Istanbul line. It is a story of two lives—two rivers—born in Trabzon and Tabriz, flowing toward one another. On one side is Settarhan, the fiery son of Tabriz’s noblest carpet merchant; on the other, Zehra, a pearl of Trabzon. Amidst the chaos of war, forced migration, and destiny, their paths intertwine with others: the fiery Azam, the intellectual Sophia, and the tragic İsmail. Nazan Bekiroğlu masterfully weaves a narrative based on her own family history, exploring how two great wars reshaped lives, faiths, and loves across three countries. It is a story as rich as imagination and as real as history itself.