VEDA by AYSE KULIN

Veda is a great novel written by Ayse Kulin in 2007.The novel is about Ottoman Empire and some realistic also incredible facts experienced in a mansion in Istanbul.

There are three main characters in the novel.First one is Ahmet Resat who is a ministry in the Ottoman Empire.He is really stick to his empire and king with a grand passion and love.Regardless of everything said about his country and things not done for the country by the king,he continues to believe in his king.Another main character is Kemal who is nephew of Ahmet Resat and live in the same mansion with his uncle.Unlike his uncle,K emal believes Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and does his best to send all enemy from his country.The other main character is Mehpare.Although she is a maid in the mansion,-as she is in love with Kemal-she has an important part in both novel and the Independence War.

Ayse Kulin uses a glamorous language to tell generation gap between Ahmet Resat and Kemal.In the first days,Ahmet Resat really thinks Kemal to be ashemed of him.However,as Kemal is badly sick Ahmet Resat gives permission Kemal to come back his home after the war in the Eastren of Ottoman.For a long time,Mehpare looks over kemal like looking over her own baby.Therefore,Mehpare is his unique friend to whom he can easily tell his opinions.Consequently,Kemal influences Mehpare both with his opinions and with his handsomeness.Also, Mehpare starts to do everything that Kemal wants to do himself.By the way, in the nights there are some debates on Ottoman between Ahmet Resat and Kemal.However, Kemal successes to ingluence Ahmet Reast with his opinions as well.Therefore,- like Mehpare-Ahmet Resat starts to do some good things for the name of his nephew for his country.Unfortunately, inthe final, while Kemal dies in the Independence War for his country, Ahmet Reast has to live with his regret and thins that he could not say Kemal.

After published, the novel was choosen the best gerat of the year three times by the all writers and some critics.Also, there are so many positive comments about the novel in a blog that opened by a official and prestigious newspaper.

There is no other book that fascinated me so much.It has an important function in my life.For example, it really helped me to eliminate my prejudice against one person or a sitution.Also,while reading the novel,I was incredibly shocked as if I experienced all the war.When kemai died in the novel,I cried very much as if he was my darling or a relative.Shortly it was so realistic that when the novel was over,I felt so...