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Disquiet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781635420326)
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xWorld Literature Today Notable Translation of the Year
PopMatters Best Book of the Year From the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people. Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border. Passionate about helping others, Hussein begins visiting a refugee camp to tend to the thousands of poor and sick streaming into Turkey, fleeing ISIS. There, he falls in love with Meleknaz--whom his disapproving family will call "the devil" who seduced him--and their relationship sets further tragedy in motion. A nuanced meditation on the nature of being human and an empathetic, probing look at the past and present of these Mesopotamian lands, Disquiet gives voice to the peoples, faiths, histories, and stories that have swept through this region over centuries.
Author: Zülfü Livaneli
ISBN-10: 1635420326
ISBN-13: 9781635420326
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/12/2021
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2021
Shelf Awareness 06/29/2021
Foreword 06/26/2021
PopMatters Best Book of the Year From the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people. Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border. Passionate about helping others, Hussein begins visiting a refugee camp to tend to the thousands of poor and sick streaming into Turkey, fleeing ISIS. There, he falls in love with Meleknaz--whom his disapproving family will call "the devil" who seduced him--and their relationship sets further tragedy in motion. A nuanced meditation on the nature of being human and an empathetic, probing look at the past and present of these Mesopotamian lands, Disquiet gives voice to the peoples, faiths, histories, and stories that have swept through this region over centuries.
Author: Zülfü Livaneli
ISBN-10: 1635420326
ISBN-13: 9781635420326
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/12/2021
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2021
Shelf Awareness 06/29/2021
Foreword 06/26/2021
By Zülfü Livaneli
xZülfü Livaneli is Turkey's bestselling author, a celebrated composer and film director, and a political activist. Widely considered one of the most important Turkish cultural figures of our time, he is known for his novels that interweave diverse social and historical backgrounds, figures, and incidents, including the critically acclaimed Bliss (winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award), Serenade for Nadia (Other Press, 2020), Leyla's House, and My Brother's Story, which have been translated into thirty-seven languages, won numerous international literary prizes, and been turned into movies, stage plays, and operas. Brendan Freely was born in Princeton in 1959 and studied psychology at Yale University. His translations include Two Girls by Perihan Mağden, The Gaze by Elif Şafak, and Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet Altan.
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