Kurgu
Ports of Call
CevvelaKurgu
Ports of Call
Amin Maalouf · Yapı Kredi Yayınları · 1996
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The story of İsyan—the grandson of an Ottoman prince and an Armenian grandmother—as he searches for his identity in Lebanon, France, and the tumultuous history of the Middle East. A lyrical novel about İsyan, madness, exile, and the tragic fate of the East.
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“Madness is the last refuge of those fleeing an unbearable reality.”
“The more a person clings to their own history, the blinder they become.”
“Exile is not only leaving a place; it is losing the home within yourself.”
“The fate of the East is to fall in love with its past and fail to build its future.”
“Identities were invented not to set people free but to turn them against one another.”
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Maalouf writes of the silent cry of people torn from their roots. Cevvela is a map of rootless souls—souls left unfulfilled because no one believed in them. Rebellion is not merely a political act; it is also the inner struggle a person wages against the sins and history of their own lineage. You come to feel how the rigid identities, flags, and borders you defend actually shatter that universal essence we call “human.” A person cannot belong to a place—only to another person.