Time to love. Behmoaras L.

The story of Romeo and Juliet in the 20th century could look like that. Muslim and Jewish, medical students of Istanbul University, fall in love with each other. In the yard of 1940, more and more countries and peoples are drawn into the whirlpool of the fierce war, the votes of nationalists sound louder in Turkey. Both families do not want to hear anything about such a union, and both are appealing to “common sense”, but in vain - because it has come for the time to love everything. And although lovers will not have to die in order to connect, their great love will have to go through many tests.

Liz Behmoaras, a Turkish writer of Jewish origin, journalist and translator. She constantly turns to the topic of Jews in Turkey, to the life of the Jewish community and the fate of women in the country. The novel "Time to Love" (2011) - Debut Behmoaras in fiction.