Happiness-Zülfü Livaneli
Happiness is Zülfü Livaneli's novel.This novel's main characters are Meryem,İrfan Kurudal and Cemal.This novel explains the concept of honor killings in The Eastern Anadolu.Meryem ,who is 17 years old,living in Van is a young girl.Meryem's mother died when Meryem borns.Then Meryem's father married with a young woman.Cemal ,who is commando,is son of Mary's uncle.Meryem's step-mother hates Meryem.Meryem is raped by her uncle and his uncle decides to kill her in order to not heard of this event.When Cemal returned from soldier, his father want him to kill Meryem.Meryem and Cemal went İstanbul together.But Cemal didn't kill Meryem.Because of this,they didn't back to their village.Therefore Cemal want to help his friend.His friend supplied him a job and small house in Çeşme.At there they meet İrfan Kurudal.İrfan is the son of a poor family and professor who educated in Harvard University.He lives in İstanbul and married with rich woman.But he fed up this life and left home .He rent a sailboat.İrfan,Meryem and Cemal met in the small house.İrfan loves Meryem so much.But Cemal is very cold and hates İrfan.Professor took them to his part.Professor changes their life.Finally Cemal learns that Meryem was raped by his own father and turns back to kill his father in order to took Meryem' s revenge.After this event he and Meryem start a new life to be happy.