User:Nazliiremt/Serenade (novel)

Serenade is a Zulfu Livaneli novel published in 2011, in which music, science, art and love are intertwined. Despite the fact that the novel tells a touching love story, the author does not emphasize the concept of a romance novel, noting that “I didn't specifically call the book a romance novel. The word love is very defiled.", he said.

Plot
The book tells the events that took place in 2001 between the 36-year-old Maya Duran, who was working in the Public Relations Department at Istanbul University, and the 87-year-old German-American professor Maximillian Wagner, who came to Turkey from abroad as the guest of the university.

The professor's coming to Istanbul to trace his 60-year-old love not only reveals his and Maya's family secrets; In addition to the Holocaust, Armenian and Kurdish problems in the Second World War, it also reveals the stories of the people who lost their lives in the Struma ship and the Blue Regiment disasters.

Awards

 * In 2021, it was named the most loved book of 2020 by The Boston Globe.