{"id":148614,"date":"2011-12-14T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=148614"},"modified":"2011-12-14T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:43:21","slug":"azerbaijani-authors-new-novel-sari-gelin-again-takes-aim-at-taboos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/14\/azerbaijani-authors-new-novel-sari-gelin-again-takes-aim-at-taboos.html","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani Author&#8217;s New Novel &#8216;Sari Gelin&#8217; Again Takes Aim at Taboos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijani writer Alekper Aliyev&#8217;s new novel &#8220;Sari Gelin&#8221; is about current Azerbaijani society, about each of us, about our questions and answers, writes Elmir Mirzoyev in <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kultura.az\/articles.php?item_id=20111214042028580&amp;sec_id=19\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kultura.az<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, Aliyev is the author of controversial novel Artush and Zaur, which tells the love story of two boys, one Armenian, the other, Azeri, who were born and raised in Baku and become sexually attracted to each other before the Nagorno Karabakh War separates them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I defend homosexual romanticism over war romanticism. It is acceptable when two men kill each other, but is it a sin when they sleep together?&#8221; was famously quoted as telling <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyet.com.tr\/english\/lifestyle\/11334487.asp?gid=244\">the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/a><\/strong> when the book was first published.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mirzoyev, Aliyev&#8217;s new book also addresses inter-ethnic issues: the &#8220;hatred of hating Urartu,&#8221; people&#8217;s strive to return to their &#8220;roots,&#8221; nationalist rhetoric, and other issues of concern to &#8220;the oligopoly, television and the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The representation of history, songs, food, and epos are the book&#8217;s constant companions, while the countries of the region are called by their old historic names \u2014 Atropatene, Urartu, Iberia, Ottoman (Osmanli) and Imperial Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, the book&#8217;s title was chosen purposefully: Sari Gelin, a popular folk song that not only Armenians, but also Azeris, Turks and Persians consider their own.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alekper Aliyev is also the author of controversial novel Artush and Zaur, which tells the love story of two boys, one Armenian, the other, Azeri&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35875,35876,65942,10265,10783,22132,13946],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}