My Brother’s Story can be read as a loyal devotion to One Thousand and One Nights, one of the most celebrated collections of stories in literary history. Opening with Shahrazad who is revealing the truth about herself to her royal husband, the novel presents a narrator-protagonist who can only survive through the act of narration. Similar to Shahrazad who plays with her husband’s curiosity as her listener, Mehmet uses and abuses his listener, the journalist Pelin. His aim is to tell her his stories and to end his life as the narrator.

Keywords: Narrator, Story-teller, Narration, Listener, Fiction, Reality.