My parental home, The Years of Vagabondage, Jemile, The Marriage, and The Whistles of Friends are the five autonomous parts that make up "The Novel of the Little Man," the best-known autobiographical work of the classic Turkish author worldwide.

Jemile, in the foreground, is the love story of the beautiful Bosnian worker with the low-paid clerk Nejat, and in the background, it is the story of a working-class neighborhood in Adana in 1934 and the harshness of daily wages in the textile industry.

In this novel, Orhan Kemal, while describing the everyday, humble life of his heroes in his characteristic realistic writing style, does not fail to emphasize the power of friendship and solidarity as antidotes to poverty, hostility, resentment, as well as to the moral and social deadlocks of people.