The most beautiful ode to a city I have ever read. Rich in details of the streets and the lives of ordinary people. He also weaves the social and political history of Turkey and Istanbul into the background of the story. It is a sad story, though, a lament for a lost city and a lost way of life, essentially the death of community and human warmth and the triumph of greed and materialism.
Mevlut is a beautiful character, sufi-like.
Well-written as well, with a narrator as well as characters that pop in and give their view of events or other characters in the story.
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