Motherland Hotel - Yusuf Atligan

A Turkish novel from 1973.  Bit of a strange novel - for the time, I suspect both certain aspects of the style, and some of the subject matter, were a bit shocking or controversial.  About a small town hotel clerk who is quite bizarre mentally, a bit obsessive.  In the course of the book, he gets worse, finally has some kind of crisis and commits suicide.  For me, not the most interesting storyline.  What is interesting is the evocation of small town life at that time - the people, the cafes, the mood.  Reminds me of some the small Black Sea towns I stayed in back in the lat 70s.  There is also a fair bit about the main character's family history, so you see how the Greek invasion affected the lives of these people living in the interior, not too far from Izmir.