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This book is a bit like a Dostoyevsky novel in that the characters' stories are mostly a statement about Turkish and Armenian relations. Personally I'd rather read a novel with a less existentialist plot but I can't say it wasn't an interesting read.
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I went back and forth feeling like this was a just a good holiday read (read it while in Istanbul, in fact!), with characters who are vivid-but-not-too-deep, etc., to thinking it was much more than that, full of interesting things to say about Turkish history, Armenian diaspora, gender, religion, politics, etc. So who cares, I liked it.
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