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Love & Death In Cyprus

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Kıbrıs tarihi, yazarların taraflı gözlerle kaleme aldıkları hikayelerle doludur. Herry Blackey, ne bir Rum ne bir Tü zamanında bu adada hizmet etmiş ve daha sonra Avusturalya'ya yerleşerek yaşamını anavatanı İngiltere'den uzaklarda sürdüren bir yazar. Bu kitabı eşsiz kılan da onun tarafsız kalemi. Kıbrısta'ki deneyimlerinden bunca yıl sonra yazar, Kıbrıslı Türk bir kadınla, Kraliyet Ordusu'nda görev yapan bir eczacının hikayesini aktarıyor bizlere. Hikayesi yalnızca Kıbrıs'ta yakın tarihte yaşanan olayları politik ve sosyolojik açıdan gözler önüne sermekle kalmayıp, romanın başkahramanları Leyle Özkara ve Alex Forbes'un iç dünyalarına da ışık tutuyor.Yazarın kitabı yazarken yaptığı detaylı araştırmaya, tarihi gerçekleri ve olguları yansıtmadaki cesaretine, Kıbrıs'ın dillere destan güzelliklerini anlatırken kurguladığı söyleme hayran kalmamak elde değil.Yazar, Kıbrıs'ta bugün bile bizi hayrete düşüren kahramanlıklara imza atmış Dr. Fazıl Küçük ve Rauf Denktaş gibi gerçek öncülere haklarını teslim ederken, onca isimsiz kalmış kahramanın, Kıbrıslı aydınların, kadınların, annelerin, köy muhtarlarının ve mücahitlerin önünde saygıyla eğiliyor.

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First published December 1, 2010

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Harry Blackley

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Harry Blackley is a Scottish-born Australian and has a long connection Turkey and Cyprus where he served in the British Army 1958. A pharmacist, he returned to university at the age of forty and gained a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Creative writing. He is a former mayor of the City of South Barwon, Geelong and has received several awards including the Australian Centenary Medal and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey’s Gold Medallion for Distinguished Service. He is married to Gina and has two daughters and two step-daughters. Apart from a little golf, he spends his time writing and has completed a third novel and is working on a fourth.

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April 6, 2020
The book might have been interesting if it was an autobiography or a diary of sorts. I do suspect there are autobiographic elements in it, notwithstanding the author's declaration to the contrary, but under the guise of fiction the luster of reality is lost.

As it is, the story is long winded, the parts of the main character's (Alex's) life in the years after he left Cyprus irrelevant and tedious. The plot is trite, the prose mediocre.

The book might have earned some merit if it had earnestly tried to convey the Turkish Cypriot side of the story without losing the baseline of impartiality. However, events are portrayed through obvious bias, wasting the great potential of presenting a different and humane look on the recent history of the island.
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October 25, 2022
I have been back and forth to Cyprus since 1956 and read many books about the Cyprus problem. This is one of the best and most truthful books I have read and found it very difficult to put down.
Thank you so much to Harry Blackley for an amazing book.
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March 15, 2023
Bu kitabın her cümlesinde her bölümünde böyle bir kitap yazmayı hayal ettim. Çok güzel çok benlik
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