Now in paperback, Katharina Winkler's heartbreaking saga of a
tenacious woman trapped in an abusive marriage. Blue jewelry is
private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is
worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Blue
jewelry is another name for the marks left on women's bodies,
inflicted by the men around them. This novel tells the story of
Filiz and Yunus. When Filiz meets Yunus, he is young and beautiful,
and Filiz is proud that he wants her. Against her father's wishes,
they marry when she is thirteen. Yunus is her entire universe, all
encompassing, all powerful. Soon after the wedding, Filiz's dream
of living in the West with her husband, of escaping their small
village in Anatolia for freedom and autonomy, comes crashing down
around her. Yunus, only a few years older than his bride, turns
their marriage into a prison of dependency and violence. Trapped in
her mother-in-law's house, Filiz is subjected to physical and
mental abuse, forced to veil herself, and treated as a house slave.
When she becomes pregnant, Filiz seems to have reached her breaking
point. But she endures. When Yunus moves his young family first to
Istanbul and then to Austria, the life he had once promised her
seems to be within reach. But there is no escaping the spiral of
violence and love, which, to Filiz, have become inseparable.
Katharina Winkler's powerful story of a marriage dominated by
violence gives voice to a tenacious young woman whose will to
survive is never broken.
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