Nora Nadjarian has received international praise for her work, especially for that centring on themes of the Cyprus partition of 1974, identity and loss. Her "stories are political without being polemical", she writes of an ongoing battle in both the physical sense and mind inside the Cypriot heart that is defined by the division in Nicosia between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot side of the island without taking on a side. She condemns the battle itself, not the people. Her work is read beyond the Mediterranean borders and can very much be identified with in its search to find what defines one's nationality.