Serenade for Nadia
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"In this heartbreaking Turkish novel based on the real-life sinking of a refugee ship during World War II, an elderly professor leaves America to revisit the city where he last saw his beloved wife. Istanbul, 1999. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son. Her worries increase when she is tasked with looking after the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly German-born Harvard professor visiting the city at the university's invitation. Although he is distant at first, Maya gradually learns of the tragic circumstances that brought him to Istanbul sixty years before, and the dark realities that continue to haunt him. Inspired by the 1942 Struma disaster, in which nearly 800 Jewish refugees perished after the ship carrying them to Palestine was torpedoed off the coast of Turkey, Serenade for Nadia is both a poignant love story and a gripping testament to the power of human connection in crisis"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Other Press, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 402 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781635420166
1635420164
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Freely, Brendan, 1959-
SUBJECTS
World War, 1939-1945 -- Turkey -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Historical fiction.