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Title	:	Serenad
Author	:	O.Z. Livaneli
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 484 pages
Published	:	March 2011 by Doğan Kitap
Categories	:	Asian Literature. Turkish Literature. Fiction. Cultural. Turkish. Historical. Historical Fiction. Roman

Serenad

O.Z. Livaneli

Paperback | Pages: 484 pages

Rating: 4.39 | 9706 Users | 512 Reviews

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In this heartbreaking Turkish novel based on the real-life sinking of a refugee ship during World War II, an elderly professor leaves America to revisit the city where he last glimpsed his beloved wife.

Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son. Her worries increase when she is tasked with looking after the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly German-born Harvard professor visiting the city at the university's invitation. Although he is distant at first, Maya gradually learns of the tragic circumstances that brought him to Istanbul sixty years before, and the dark realities that continue to haunt him.

Inspired by the 1942 Struma disaster, in which nearly 800 Jewish refugees perished after the ship carrying them to Palestine was torpedoed off the coast of Turkey, Serenade for Nadia is both a poignant love story and a gripping testament to the power of human connection in crisis.

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Original Title:	Serenad ISBN13 9786050900286
Edition Language:	Turkish
Setting:	Istanbul(Turkey)

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Ratings: 4.39 From 9706 Users | 512 Reviews

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nope.sorry.

It is a great novel which contains history, politics, psychology and culturs. For me it might be more interesting than other readers as I had some similarities with the background and family of the characters in the book. I definitely recommend it to all novel lovers.Happy readings!

Beautiful and tragic. A war story that evolves in the present, like a noir novel.

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I have great respect for books with valuable stories and valuable information in them. Only scarcely does a book breathe through me like this. Although, at first I had the impression that this was a mediocre novel, I was caught by emotion and surprise after reading 50 pages of it. I do not know how but this book turned into an extremely personal experience of mine. One that I would only share with my better half... kudos to Livaneli.

Very interesting and sad love and war story well worth telling but told in an amateurish literary style. Reads more like a history lesson. Didactic and full of humanist sentiment, and yet still manages to be compelling.

I enjoyed the book very much and learned/recalled many historic events, characters in addition to some traditional anecdotes. Being aware and appreciating that Zulfu Livaneli, as an intellectual and well respected writer, scholar and artist, deliberately used an overly simplified narration, cliche opinions, not so good expressions and descriptions to reflect that the protagonist is NOT a writer (as she states in the last pages as well), I still cant say that I enjoyed the literary aspect of the