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Almin Kaplan's Home People is a multi-layered novel that depicts life in a Herzegovinian village through the prism of everyday family life, between reality, memory and quiet melancholy. In a recognizable, lyrical style, the author explores themes of home, belonging and time that inexorably changes everything – from people to their relationships and values.

At the center of the work is a family whose members, each in their own way, struggle with the challenges of modern life and the loss of what they once considered the foundation of existence. The house – as a physical and symbolic space – becomes a place where the past and the present, the living and the dead, happiness and longing meet.

Kaplan's narrative tone is full of quiet empathy, with an emphasis on the details of everyday life and the landscapes of Herzegovina that reflect the emotional states of the characters. Through simple but deeply experienced images, the author shows how complex inner worlds and sadness for a disappearing world are hidden in ordinary people.

The novel is at once an intimate chronicle and a poetic portrayal of the homeland, a dedication to the homeland and to all those who seek – or lose – their place in it.