Bliss (novel)
Mutluluk ( German luck ) is a Turkish-language novel by Zülfü Livaneli from 2002 and a worldwide bestseller; the German translation Glückseligkeit was published on August 29, 2008 by Klett-Cotta.
The book had previously been translated into Greek, English, Swedish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Hebrew and received great acclaim. The French President Jacques Chirac said after reading that the three main characters of Mutluluk will have "a strong influence on French readers". The Kurdish-Turkish poet Yaşar Kemal compared the work in its intensity with Shakespeare tragedies.
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Mutluluk tells the story of an honor killing . Cemal is chosen to kill his cousin Meryem, who was dishonored by desecration, far away from the village where archaic laws still apply. However, not least because of the clash with the modern, urban side of Turkey, which is shown, among other things, in the third main character of the book, the university professor and dropout Irfan, this project develops into an odyssey .
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In Turkey, Mutluluk, whose title means bliss, topped the bestseller list. In 2006 it was voted “Book of the Month April” by 2000 libraries in its French edition; a year later it received the same recognition from Italian critics. Barnes & Noble honored the novel in 2006 with the annual “Discover Great New Writers Award” and certified it “outstanding literary quality”. In the same year he was selected for the “Book of the Fall Season”, the US fall book of the year. The Booksense Institution, made up of 1,200 independent booksellers across the United States, also selected Mutluluk as a “Booksense Notable for November”.
An audio book (USA) and a film (Turkey) were released in 2006 and 2007.
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- http://blogs.taz.de/istanbulblog/2007/03/20/ein-film-im-istanbuler-fruehling-mutluluk-von-zuelfue-livaneli/
- Emrah Güler: A twisted Blue Cruise in Turkish Daily News of November 24, 2007 (English)
- ↑ http://www.klett-cotta.de/buch/Gegenwartsliteratur/Glueckseligkeit/5686
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Book Description on the author's homepage (English)
- Information on Mutluluk under Aspects