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Author Livaneli, Zülfü, 1946- author.

Title Serenade for Nadia / Zülfü Livaneli ; translated from the Turkish by Brendan Freely.

Publication Info. New York : Other Press, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION LIVANELI    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F LIVANELI, Z.    Storage
Description 402 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in Turkish as Serenad in 2011 by Dogan Egmont, Istanbul.
Summary "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 saw his beloved wife. Istanbul, 1999. 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"--Provided by publisher.
Subject College teachers -- Fiction.
Reminiscing -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Turkey -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
FICTION / General.
Turkey. (OCoLC)fst01208963
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
War stories.
Historical fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Novels.
Added Author Freely, Brendan, 1959- translator.
Added Title Serenad. English
Other Form: Online version: Livaneli, Zülfü, Serenade for Nadia New York : Other Press, 2020. 9781635420173 (DLC) 2019024801
ISBN 9781635420166 paperback
1635420164 paperback
9781635420173 electronic book
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