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Publication Date: Jun 29, 2021

176 pp

Ebook

List Price US: $8.99

ISBN: 978-1-63542-033-3

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List Price US: $14.99

ISBN: 978-1-63542-032-6

Trim Size: 5.20 x 8.02 x 0.52 in.

Disquiet

A Novel

by Zülfü Livaneli Translated by Brendan Freely

World 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.


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