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Apr 30, 2012roystreet rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I gave this book 200 pages, but finally quit. Part of the problem was the narrator: just too whiny, narcissistic. The book would have been better served by a third-person narrator. The other characters are not fully fleshed out; they give the impression of being seen through a scrim. And for all the author's emphasis on upper-middle class life in Istanbul in the '70's, we get little sense of the conflicting forces at work. The book is well written and beautifully translated; I would have appreciated some help on how Turkish names are pronounced. All in all, though, it suffers from a lack of dramatization