Title: I didn't get it
Product review: What can I say? I hate to swim upstream against all the readers who loved the book, but what the heck, I didn't. I've gone back and reread the reviews, trying to determine if it was me, or if the emperor isn't wearing clothes. I still haven't made the determination, but will take the blame, chalking it up to a mismatch of expections.I'm traveling to Turkey and wanted a novel to acquaint me with its people and culture. The story line, the mystery of a missing wife and columnist in Istanbul, seemed like an interesting vehicle. The story line though, is way, way down the list on the author's agenda, an agenda that seems to be headed with baring his (and presumably the Turkish) soul. Its a surealistic therapy session of stories within stories - dense, dark, complex, repetitious, and for me, a tedious exercise.The novel was simply too much work for minimal reward.
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