Zülfü Livaneli, born Ömer Zülfü Livanelioğlu in 1946, is a Turkish novelist, composer, film director and politician, and one of the country's best-known cultural figures. His novels include The Eunuch of Constantinople (1996), Bliss (2002), Last Island (2008) and Serenade for Nadia. Bliss received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers award in 2006; he has also won the Balkan Literary Award for best novel (1997), the Yunus Nadi Award (2001) and the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize (2009). He sat...
Son Ada
Son Ada
Synopsis
Son Ada (The Last Island) is Zülfü Livaneli's allegorical novel about a small, ecologically pristine island whose forty households have long lived in self-sufficient, democratic harmony. That balance collapses when a deposed, authoritarian former president buys land on the island to spend his retirement in peace.
Elected — almost accidentally — as the island's new leader, the ex-president slowly reproduces the same patterns of control that once defined his rule, eroding the community's collective decision-making and its natural surroundings alike. Livaneli uses the island's shrinking freedoms and vanishing landscape as a mirror for authoritarianism's slow, self-justifying encroachment on any peaceful order.
Winner of the 2009 Orhan Kemal Novel Award, Son Ada reads as both an ecological fable and a pointed political warning.
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The Former PresidentAntagonist
A deposed authoritarian leader who is elected head of the island and slowly recreates his old rule.
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Son AdaPaperback, Jan
196 pages
Doğan KitapISBN: 97860509163622 editions available
