"I woke up on a Tuesday morning, all the newspapers wrote that the woman I loved most in life had committed a murder, I never expected it, I returned to be shot in my brain, my inner balances were shaken violently But I knew the truth but nobody did anything to me. the soldier had come to take me, a civil war had been declared, and mobilization had been declared.I was waiting for that.I was not surprised.I have been waiting for this for a long time with fear and suspicion.I am prepared and I am out of the house that Tuesday morning. A young teacher is taken away from the house in Kuzguncuk one morning and taken to the military. He believes that this is a nightmare and that his friends join him in civil war. However, his mother tells that his son was taken away from home by an ambulance. Kumral Ada - Mavi Tuna is a shocking novel that explains the fires that we have created both inside and outside of our civil war, individually and socially, in the direction of a desperate love triangle. Translated into four languages, Kumral Ada - Mavi Tuna describes an unforgettable love story while exploring many social wounds.
Author
Buket Uzuner (born 3 October 1955, Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories and travelogues. Travel Literature She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages, including Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian. Buket Uzuner travels as "solo woman backpacker" since 1980s including "inter-rail" tours in Europe and in three other continents while keep writing her travel memoirs. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. Uzuner wrote two more travel books as Travel Notes of An Urban Romantic which questions the meaning of exoticism and New York Logbook which are all collected lately in Travel Library of Buket Uzuner In 2013 her novel İstanbullular is published in USA by Dalkey Archive Press with the title of I Am Istanbul translated into English by Kenneth J. Dakan She is also celebrating in 2013 the 22nd year's anniversary of her first novel İki Yeşil Susamuru, Anneleri, Babaları, Sevgilileri ve Diğerleri (Two Green Otters, Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and All the Others) translated by Alex Dawe with its 50th edition which sold over 1 million copies in Turkey and already a contemporary classic. Uzuner's books have been on the Turkish best-seller lists since 1992. They are taught in a number of Turkish universities and high schools.[1][2] In 1993, Buket Uzuner was awarded Turkey's Yunus Nadi prize for the novel The Sound of Fishsteps, and in 1998 Mediterranean Waltz was named novel of the year by the University of Istanbul. She was made an honorary member of the International Writing Program, IWP of University of Iowa in 1996. She was also honored with a certificate of appreciation from the Senate of Middle East Technical University; METU in 2004. She has referred to Turkish poet and novelist Attilâ İlhan, and Cervantes, Dostoyevski, Doris Lessing, Turkish woman writer Sevgi Soysal as major influences on her work.
