Purgatory

Purgatory follows August Aksiden – a former lecturer and patriarch of a once-respected family – who falls into a coma that traps his body but leaves his mind painfully awake. He cannot move. But he hears. He sees. He remembers everything.

At first, his family treats him as if he’s still among them: they speak to him, sit him at the table, pretend life continues unchanged. But routine turns into fear, and fear quickly becomes confession.

One by one, members of the Aksiden bloodline visit him in secret, spilling their hidden sins into the silence – betrayals, jealousies, crimes, truths buried for generations. They believe he can never return.

But August records every word in the dark. And as the weight of the family’s secrets grows heavier, only one question remains:

What happens if he wakes up?

Purgatory is a dark literary novel about guilt, legacy, and the inevitable price of truth – a story where silence is a witness, and every whispered confession has consequences.