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Last Island Book Description With the foreword of Yaşar Kemal: "Zülfü entered the big door with this novel." The Last Island... A shelter far from the mainland, full of seagulls, jasmine scents, pine forests, colorful fish and happy people. The best kept secret, the hidden paradise on earth. How was this last human corner, the last refuge, lost? Is it possible to get it back? The Last Island, the most political novel by the famous writer Zülfü Livaneli, tells the story of what happened on an island whose name we do not know, with people whose names we do not know and a dictator. Livaneli draws attention to the reality of "dictatorship", which is familiar to all readers from Turkey and the world, with an allegorical narrative. In the words of Yaşar Kemal, one of the cornerstones of Turkish literature, in the Foreword: “Zülfü has created incredible dimensions and possibilities in this novel. Everything fits together. There is a magnificent saying in literature: entering through the big door. This means the author of a great work. "Zülfü entered the big door with this novel." The Last Island, which was deemed worthy of the 2009 Orhan Kemal Novel Award and was translated into many languages and read worldwide, appears before the readers again with its renewed finale saluting the Gezi resistance. (From the Promotional Bulletin)