When war colonizes love and its words as it does territories, then loving becomes urgent, as does founding a "Priority Love Zone," lest love vanish.

Priority Love Zone intertwines the portraits of two women with the story of Varosha, the Cypriot town that died out in the 1970s after the Turkish army invaded. Two women who, each in turn, speak of absence, of lost love: a man the war has effaced, and their entire lives, shaped by this absence. Conveyed in a powerful, demanding prose style, this novel about the consequences of war touches readers in their innermost being.