Summary
Vera Mutafčieva: The Case of Džem
The fifteenth century is too rich in historical events and famous personalities: the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of a new age, the discovery of the New World, the fall of Constantinople, the end of the Reconquest and the beginning of the Spanish Inquisition..., Leonardo da Vinci, Joan of Arc, Vlad Tepes, Matthias Corvinus, Botticelli, Copernicus, Gutenberg...
However, in this event rich century, among the names of rulers, popes, artists and all kinds of adventurers, another name that, for somewhat inexplicable reasons, has remained less known - the name of Jam Sultan.
After the death of Mehmed II. In 1481, the conqueror had a conflict between his two sons, Dzem and Bayazit. Fleeing from Bayazit's retribution, Džem finds refuge with a knight of the Ivano-Frankivsk army in Rhodes. Gradually, in anticipation of the military aid of Christian Europe, he becomes her prisoner and trump card in the battles against the Turks. Vera Mutafčieva's lucid and masterful novel reveals the tragic dimension of this authentic historical hero, unsuspecting ruler and poet, and sheds new light on the relationship between East and West in the always restless Mediterranean. Vera Mutafčieva began her literary activity in 1952, writing professional articles and monographs on the history of Bulgaria in the Ottoman Empire and on the history of the Balkans. She is the author of thirty-five novels and more than eighty articles. The novel Slućaj Džem - which stands alongside the world's best historical novels - has seen ten editions in Bulgarian, has been translated into numerous world languages, and for the first time is also available in Croatian.
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