Madonna in a Fur Coat
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Average rating4
'A heart-breaker . . . it has the kind of indefinably powerful impact of The Great Gatsby' Observer 'The surprise bestseller ... read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages' Guardian 'A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame' Financial Times Her dark eyes were lost in thought, absently staring into the distance, drawing on a last wisp of hope as she searched for something that she was almost certain she would never find. 'The magical novel about a Turkish man who falls in love with an artist in 1920s Berlin ... recreates a vanished era and dramatises a doomed relationship with verve, depth and poignancy. The result is a miniature masterpiece' The National 'Moving and memorable, full of yearning and melancholy' The Times 'A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame' Financial Times 'A gorgeously melancholic romance' Irish Times
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How could I feel anger towards people? The one I had deemed most precious, splendid and beloved had served me up the cruellest fate, so how could I expect anything else from the others? I could no longer love, or risk any form of intimacy, for I had been deceived by the one person I'd trusted and believed absolutely. After that, how could I trust anyone again?
A lost love story and how it influences one man's life. From Ankara to Berlin and back.
I liked the writing, the scenery, and the structure of this, but I couldn't warm up to the characters and their passivity. Plus, I am really not a fan of love-at-first-sight as a plot device, and this particular love story is all that. Even though its slow progression has quite a interesting feminist angle.
