The Secret of the Happy Spirit / Five Books

There are many ways to add beauty to our lives. Just as our physical transformations with small or large touches make us happy, the secret of a happy soul is unquestionably living in collaboration with art. Going to the movies, watching a movie, listening to music I enjoy, and reading the works of immortal writers who have inspired me are all beneficial to my soul. I have interpreted five books that have left their mark on me for you. Let's cheer up our souls a little bit...

Isabel Allende - The House of Spirits

Isabel Allende's first novel, and one of her best, was the first book I met with. Isabel Allende is also the niece of Chilean President Salvador Allende, who served from 1970 to 1973. As a result, Chile's transformation came from a diplomat family, and as a child forced to flee her country, she experienced all of the period's hardships. The novelization of the book adds a new sadness to the story.

The intertwined story of three generations of a family spans 70 years in The House of Spirits. The incredible women of the Trueba family through three generations, as well as a period story of Chile's drift away from democracy. Isabel Allende has described the analysis of social movements, the dangers of extremism, how power has become a dangerous beast, and one of Chile's most terrifying moments in such detail that she transports us to that time period. It is a mystical, heavy, intense, and magnificent work in which you will feel the closing of a chapter in a country's history in your bones.

Murathan Mungan - Cities from Woman

Let me tell you a lie: sharing a single book by Murathan Mungan seems unfair to his other magnificent works. I believe that each of his books, as well as the subject of the thesis, should be read. Perhaps I chose this book because it had a significant impact on me at the time I read it. Women's Cities is a story book in which 16 women from 16 cities wrote their stories. Izmir, Adana, Trabzon, Bursa, Samsun, Amasya, Ankara, Sinop, Afyon, Kirsehir, Erzurum, Diyarbakir, Kayseri, Gumushane, Mersin, and Istanbul are among the cities featured in the stories.

"I don't know if women are unhappy," Mungan says of women, "but when you start to break out of the traditional social model in Turkey, you are charged with a kind of loneliness." It is said that as a woman, you need to gain economic freedom and become individualized. On the other hand, you will continue to exist within the traditional family structure, you will earn a living, you will be intelligent, and when you begin to gain an identity and become an individual, a rift that belongs to these women will begin."

A book that strikes the center of the rib cage at the end of each story. The women mentioned are so real, and the details make them so palpable; perhaps this is why the reader's emotions are raging.

Ursula K. Le Guin - Earthsea Series

Ursula K. Le Guin, whose literary career spanned 60 years, is without a doubt one of the best science fiction and fantasy writers of her time. She is the first woman to win both the Nebula and the Hugo awards at the same time.

Instead of just one of his books, I thought it would be more appropriate to share the entire Earthsea Series, which has turned out to be a magnificent series. The Earthsea series was originally written as a trilogy, but with the addition of another book, it was expanded to a quartet. Ten years after this stage, the last book in the series is included: The Other Wind. Tales from the Earthsea was added twelve years after Tehanu, bringing the total number of books to six.

The Wizard of Earthsea is, as Le Guin said, "Growth" a book. The novel begins when Duny, whose real name is unidentified, is noticed by her aunt, a simple witch, and begins to learn small spells from her. If you like fantasy fiction like Lord of the Rings, Earthsea Series is for you. Earthsea is a life story and a great classic. You can laugh at those who call it a children's book.

Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron

While the plague epidemic ravaged Europe in 1348, the writer Giovanni Boccaccio, who was greatly affected by the epidemic, began writing the Decameron novel in the same years and finished it in three years. The book, which is said to be the best story anthology ever, deals with the period's happiness, men and women's relationships, heartaches, on-site answers, and clergy seeking benefits. Florence of the days of the plague is discussed in the Decameron. 10 wealthy young people who want to escape the plague epidemic stay in a house near Fiesole and then in a castle to live, laugh, and have fun, and taste pleasures that do not cross borders. Every day, except on Fridays and Saturdays, this group of 7 women and 3 men decides which of them should be king or queen, and a story is told about the subject determined by the king or queen. Decameron is a combination of the Greek words "Deca," which means "ten," and "Hemera," which means "day." A must-read masterpiece of European storytelling, consisting of 100 stories told over the course of ten days.

Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings is my favorite novel by Louis de Bernieres, best known for Captain Corelli's Mandolini. Birds Without Wings is my favorite novel by Louis de Bernieres, best known for Captain Corelli's Mandolini.

Examining the effects of the war through the eyes of the villagers, Muslim and Christian relations, how the lives of the heroes of the War of Independence, which we do not know very well, fell apart with their neighbors for forty years, without understanding who became the "other" and when, and some stood shoulder to shoulder for the "homeland." Bernieres, who wrote a moving historical novel with which he had a run-in.

The book examines the Turkish War of Independence and the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with documentary sensitivity, focusing on the axis of love between a Greek girl named Philothei and a Turkish youth named Brahim, who lived in a cute village called Eskibahçe in Fethiye during the Turkish War of Independence. It was one of the most touching books I have ever read.