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Turkish Butterflies.
Love between two cultures .
In the spring of 2002 Stine Jensen falls head over heels in love with the Turkish hairdresser Ozan. What starts off as an innocent holiday romance, turns into a long-lasting affair.
For three years, Jensen divides her time between Amsterdam and Istanbul. She follows a course in Turkish for beginners, talks to young Turks and Europeans living in Istanbul about their ideas on love and sex, and studies eastern and western stereotypes of love in Turkish television soaps, pop music and films. She becomes friends with three young Turkish women who are dreaming of a European man and meets the sad Mert who has to choose between his mother and his Dutch lover, the charming Frenchman Patrick, who has to slip past the doorkeeper every night to be with his beloved Yildiz, and Moon, who has 31 Turkish men in her dating system, but can't find Mr. Right.
Turkish Butterflies is a personal investigation into the choices of female and male thirty-somethings, emigrating Europeans who have lost their hearts to Turkey, Turks who are dreaming of a life in Europe and the difficulties and pleasures of intercultural love
Stine Jensen (1972) is a literary theorist and philosopher. She works as a literary critic for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and is the author of De verlangenmachine.Vrouwen in de popmuziek (Desiremachine. Women in Pop Music) and Waarom vrouwen van apen houden. Een liefdesgeschiedenis in cultuur en wetenschap (Why women love apes. A love affair in science and culture)
Publisher: Prometheus/Bert Bakker, Amsterdam ( www.pbo.nl )
June 2005
paperback | 12,5 x 20 cm| ca 256 pages
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