Bliss

Tradition-mandated horrors rain down on two young Turkish citizens, but perhaps they will find something sweeter.

The lake is still. A stark wind-swept dune rises above it, the image mirrored, unbroken on its surface. A herd of sheep drinks beside it. The body of a young woman lies on its bank. Her name is Meryem and though it turns out that she is alive, that life is of little use to her anymore, for the sheepherder's daughter is the victim of an "honor crime"; her chastity lost brutally, her sentence in the small Turkish village of her birth -- dictated by tradition, demanded by the village's most powerful man -- is death. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3856 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 9 ottobre 2009