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I left that book for someone to find at Zanzibar airport which says a lot about how much I liked it - I tend to carry books even thick ones like this one back to Berlin if I can't part with them. I am a big fan of Orhan Pamuk but this one simple didn't live up to others I read by him. The decisions of the male characters are sometimes hard to follow, while the women remain stale and flat. Still, an interesting read about Turkey's modernity.

Don't love this book as much as some of Pamuk's others but his storytelling abilities do capture my attention time and time again. And there is something surreal reading about Turkey on the verge of the beginning of the tragedies of the Second World War whilst on a beach in Zanzibar...#orhanpamuk #travelreads #zanzibar