The Fisherman and His Son - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Zülfü Livaneli is Turkey’s best-selling author 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), Disquiet (Other Press, 2021), The Last Island (Other Press, 2022), 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 Magden, The Gaze by Elif Safak, and Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet Altan. Klappentext "In this humane, affecting tale of a Turkish couple who lose their child and find another, the internationally bestselling author of Disquiet explores the ethical questions surrounding immigration. Fisherman Mustafa and his wife, Mesude, are devastated with grief for their son Deniz, who was lost at sea at seven years old. One day, Mustafa discovers the bodies of a woman and man in the water, likely refugees from Syria, Pakistan, or Afghanistan drowned as they attempted to reach Greece. Nearby, he also finds a baby boy, tied to a small inflatable boat and miraculously alive. Mustafa and Mesude at first welcome the child as a precious gift, a second Deniz, but when a woman surfaces claiming to be his mother, they must make a painful decision. Through their heart-wrenching story, Zèulfèu Livaneli sensitively evokes the struggles of migrants seeking a safer life in unknown, often hostile lands. In the process, he also teaches readers about the history and culture of the Aegean, and the ecological destruction wreaked by corporations in the region"-- Leseprobe The sea was sleeping, motionless, but soon it would be woken by a slight breeze. The breeze that began before daybreak eased the pain in the fisherman’s legs, which had been aching for hours from the damp night air. It was time to get up; the dark blue of the sea was taking on a strange whiteness. The sky was different every day; you looked and it was purple, then it was pink, then milk white, then it would turn a host of colors that would glisten as they were reflected on the mirror surface of the sea. The fisherman hadn’t missed the waking of the sea in thirty years. He got up every day before sunrise, drank a small glass of olive oil, then set out for the fishing harbor. He’d learned about drinking olive oil on an empty stomach from the healthy elders of the village who’d lived past a hundred. The elders who pressed the olives from the centuries-old trees whose trunks were as gnarled as their own bodies. When he reached the harbor it was already light, but the dirt road was deserted. No one went out as early as he did. This suited the fisherman, who didn’t talk much and preferred solitude. He was a tall, thin man. His sunken cheeks, grayish hazel eyes, and tousled, sandy hair gave his face a handsomeness that no one noticed, envied, or thought about. He had the body of a man who worked for a living; he didn’t look at all like the city dwellers, whose bodies grow round from inactivity and overeating. He had an air that would seem wild to them, a bit too masculine, indeed even tough. These people had so many things swirling through their minds, their intuition was overdeveloped and they struggled constantly to understand their anxieties. They would have trouble living in a village like this. Life was hard here, it was difficult, you couldn’t stay on your feet without struggling to the point of exhaustion. Men, women, and even children had to adopt an a...

Product details

• Authors: Brendan Freely, ZAlfA Livaneli, Zulfu Livaneli, Zülfü Livaneli
• Publisher: Other press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2023
• EAN: 9781635423662
• ISBN: 978-1-63542-366-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature