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Elif Shafak - The Bastard of Istanbul
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(11 Messages in 2 pages - View all)
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 07:17 pm |
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 08:06 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: Bastard" is a great novel for female characters -- even the ones who make the briefest appearances are rounded and whole. Reading the passages about them leaves you with the sense of having eavesdropped on real people in their homes. But this book is also a meditation on the importance and the burden of the past -- how to live with it and when to walk away from it. Above all, "Bastard" is a novel about Istanbul, about loving a place until its rhythms , smells , and colors are under your skin.
Expat Harem:
http://expat-harem.blogspot.com/2006/07/editors-host-celebrated-turkish-writer_18.html
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You are a great provakator who does only copy and paste. Wanna me to visit in İstanbul whereever you are ?
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 08:11 pm |
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ohhh  ... available at this late hour, Rightfull One?
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 08:13 pm |
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Quoting portokal: ohhh ... available at this late hour, Rightfull One? |
Before i ask who are you , i should ask what are you ?
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 08:14 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: Bastard" is a great novel for female characters -- even the ones who make the briefest appearances are rounded and whole. Reading the passages about them leaves you with the sense of having eavesdropped on real people in their homes. But this book is also a meditation on the importance and the burden of the past -- how to live with it and when to walk away from it. Above all, "Bastard" is a novel about Istanbul, about loving a place until its rhythms , smells , and colors are under your skin.
Expat Harem:
http://expat-harem.blogspot.com/2006/07/editors-host-celebrated-turkish-writer_18.html
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I have not read any books of elif safak (I should have done  ). I remember reading her writings in radikal. She has courage to write obviously!
Roswitha, ignore the barkings!! Nature of dogs
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 08:17 pm |
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 he's gone?
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 08:28 pm |
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 what was i saying?
oh, yes: cheers!
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 08:32 pm |
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modified, since he has gone!!
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30 Nov 2007 Fri 09:04 pm |
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01 Dec 2007 Sat 01:30 pm |
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I read it, but I am not so enthusiastic about it as all the reviews I have read.
It reads quickly, just like a soap, but the problem that it tries to cover (Armenian problem, inter-cultural relations, origins), stays pretty superficial. Any of us who has the talent of writing, could write this too after making just a little research into the problematics. I dont think it adds anything to the genre.
Its really nice to read, it reads quickly and the story is fun, but it does not have the deepness I expected it to have after reading the reviews.
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