Dear Shameless Death - Latife Tekin

    A novel based on the author's experience as a child of moving to the big city (Istanbul or Ankara) from her small isolated village in Anatolia.  Many parts of the novel read like surrealism or magic realism but in large part I think instead it reflects the "magical" thinking of childhood and of people deeply embedded in a world of tradition, superstition and folk religion.  I especially enjoyed the character of the young girl, Dermit, and think the author does an amazing job of entering into the perceptions and thinking of childhood, which is very hard for rational adults.