Everest Yayınları Everest Yayınları Mediterranean Waltz

It is late 1990ies in Istanbul.; Duna, a young Istanbulian highschool teacher, wakes up one morning to the sound of fighter jets, later to find a group of soldiers at his door.; A civil war has erupted and the country is being mobilized.; Thus begins Duna's journey to an uncertain future.; Meanwhile, during Duna's absence from his neighborhood Kuzguncuk, a small village by the shores of Bosphorus that has long been a melting pot for Jewish, Armenian, Greek and Turkish communities, a mysterious accident occurs.; A love triangle that Duna had been involved in since childhood is shattered.; Mediterranean Waltz explores the painful similarities between civil wars and wars inside a participant's mind, while on the other hand, questions the delicate details of love-sex and desire-passion through a romantic triangle.; Mediterranean Waltz is the bestselling novel of Buket Uzuner, one of the most prominent and acclaimed writers of contemporary Turkish Literature.; Her work has been translated in four languages and won The Novel Prize of Istanbul University in 1998."Mediterranean Waltz is the story of love in a time of upheaval by the magical Turkish writer Buket Uzuner.; "- Yediot Ahranot, Israel 2002"Mediterranean Waltz is an anti-war novel by the contemporary Turkish writer Buket Uzuner, set against a background that reveals many cultural aspects about our neighboring country.; "- Kathimerini, Greece 2002