Book Description: Poor Folk (A Novel)

“Poor Folk” is the debut novel by the legendary Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Written in an epistolary style (a series of letters), the story follows the relationship between two impoverished relatives, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova. Through their heartbreaking correspondence, Dostoevsky explores the themes of poverty, social humiliation, and the struggle to maintain human dignity in an indifferent society.

This novel was an immediate critical success, marking the arrival of a literary genius who would later reshape the landscape of world literature with his psychological depth. The Kurdish translation by Hama Karim Arif brings this masterpiece to Kurdish readers with linguistic precision, preserving the emotional intensity and social commentary of the original Russian work, published by Saya Publishing in Sulaymaniyah.