{"product_id":"serenade-for-nadia-9781635426083","title":"Serenade for Nadia","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Favorite Book of the Year by readers of the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe \u003c\/i\u003eand a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePopMatters \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 glimpsed his beloved wife.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIstanbul, 2001. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by the 1942 \u003ci\u003eStruma\u003c\/i\u003e disaster, in which nearly 800 Jewish refugees perished after the ship carrying them to Palestine was torpedoed off the coast of Turkey, \u003ci\u003eSerenade for Nadia \u003c\/i\u003eis both a poignant love story and a gripping testament to the power of human connection in crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635426083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Z\u0026#195;\u0026#188;lf\u0026#195;\u0026#188; Livaneli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679581892789,"sku":"9781635426083","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_22fcc854-6840-42ed-96a3-cdd3f47581a2.jpg?v=1781044657","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/serenade-for-nadia-9781635426083","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}