A Migration and Acculturation Novel from the Dutch Immigrant Author Murat Işık: Verloren Grond (Lost Ground)

Since ancient times, hunger, drought, animosity or the search for better education caused people to leave their lands and go to other places or other countries. Inevitably, these types of moves bring the phenomenon of culture to the fore. This article discusses how the Zaza /Alevi born Dutch writer Murat Işık, who witnessed emigration from Turkey to The Netherlands, deals with the factors of internal migration in his novel Verloren Grond (Lost Ground), which bears traces of his family’s biography. In the work, migration of the Uslu family brings to the agenda feelings, hopes and disappointment... Mehr ...