Four more short story collections were published up to 1995, when her first and acclaimed novel Dağın Öteki Yüzü (The Other Side of the Mountain)—outwardly a family history—in which she discusses the endeavour and the attainments of the Republican revolution, as well as its shortcomings from the standpoints of women, appeared.
Critic Yıldız Ecevit[1] claims that Erendiz Atasü constructs her novels on dichotomies; and declares The Other Side of the Mountain to be an esthetization of Kemalism; whereas Çimen Günay[2] points out that it is a feminist interpretation of the foundation of the Turkish republic.
Tom Holland,[3] writing on the English translation, finds the novel "profoundly Turkish and yet also so creatively aware of European literary models" and claims that "it shows Turkey's soul".
Critic Ayşegül Yüksel[9] agrees in a way with the concept of dichotomies, but she is more precise and claims that Erendiz Atasü creates literature from the tension between contradictions; and that in her work an impartial scientific observation merges with a strong vein of emotion and empathy; and that the writer feels free in resorting to whatever literary tools she finds becoming her themes.
Mine Özyurt[10] interperates Atasü's work as female novels of awakening based on the discovery of the hidden self, opposing the male bildungsroman where the protagonist merely acquires life experience.