An Immigrant Son: A Journey Across Continents

An Immigrant Son is not merely the story of one individual, but the solemn journey of three generations bound by silence, memory, and resilience.

It begins with a family that migrated from Serbia to Istanbul, carrying with them the quiet weight of displacement and devotion to a life left behind. At its heart lies the path of a child born in Istanbul who would later build a new life in London, stitching fragments of the past into a present shaped by longing and reflection.

It recalls the faded memories of a father who once served in Tito’s army, the unwavering strength of a Bosniak mother who struggled to survive in post-war Serbia, and the spiritual legacy of grandfather Nafiz Bey, a wise man and Bektashi sheikh, whose presence still lingers in the ancient Ottoman border town of Novi Pazar.

This is not a tale of war, yet war echoes through its silence. It is a story of migration, but not merely of moving between places—it is about the quiet, often invisible effort to put down roots in unfamiliar soil.

There is family here—not just by blood, but by the shared burden of memory and endurance.

How much of ourselves is shaped by the lands we leave behind?
And how much of the past continues to live within us, long after borders have been crossed?

This book is the quiet chronicle of a man walking through cities, silences, and inherited shadows—searching not for answers, but for meaning.