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Explaining himself to himself and to a male he loves, Ziya tells Adam a stories of his life:
A bilingual childhood and girl in worldly İstanbul, city of a world’s desire, and a Aegean review of Bodrum. A bewildering outing by boat and sight and jet opposite Europe and a Atlantic to college in America, that bizarre and terrifying country. Friendships, ardent affairs, one-night stands, rape—a richly dissatisfying amorous education. A wedding, a death, an act of irregular violence—a meeting.
Intricate as Ottoman miniatures, Ziya’s stories exhibit a universe unsuspected: a universe we live in.
“Waiting fifteen years to review something new from Alex Jeffers was good value it. This collection is a value chest of perfectly-polished gems, any one radiating an middle beauty brought out by evocative prose, abounding characterizations, and a clever clarity of place. A singular provide indeed, it is over all too shortly and leaves we yearning for more.”
—Michael Thomas Ford, author of What We Remember
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #382808 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-07-21
- Released on: 2011-07-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
Unusual and unequivocally good written
By Sirius
Let me contend this initial and foremost. we have examination a lot of books in my life -- good, bad, excellent. This book is substantially among a biggest books we have ever read, if we were to decider a book usually by a turn of essay talent that went into it.
First of all, while we have never listened about this author and never examination any of his works (something we will unequivocally redress soon), we am going to assume and assume that he is not of Turkish decent. My conjecture is formed usually on a fact that in a foreword he writes that "it is a pride of this work that a composer is a Turk". From this judgment we am presumption that a author is not a Turk. My apologies if we am incorrect, yet if a author is not a Turk, a volume of investigate that went into sketch Ziya (the narrator) and delving into his conduct so deeply contingency have been humongous. we have positively no trust of what it means to be a Turk, and maybe persons of Turkish decent will not cruise a outline of Ziya to be authentic enough, yet to me it was amazing. The fact that author tells us in a commencement of a book about diction of some letters in a Turkish alphabet, given some difference will be used in a book; a explanations of some contribution that he fictionalized for a functions of a story; and a trust of how those contribution unequivocally are -- all of this leads me to trust that during a unequivocally slightest he finished a unequivocally good faith bid to pull a picturesque and multilayered character. Also, Turkey is portrayed so vividly that we felt that we visited it in my imagination. Every delegate impression is full of life and unequivocally memorable.
The book, as a content tells us, are a stories that Ziya tells his partner Adam about his life. The stories are finished chronologically, and while some of them were primarily published separately, a book indeed reads like a novel, an comment of Ziya's life. We learn what done him to be a male he is now. The book asks questions about inhabitant identity, about what it means to accept sacrament and during a same time not to be a unequivocally eremite man. It asks so many pointed questions that after dual rereads we am still flattering certain we missed some of them. Are we still a chairman of your possess identity, something that your story and sacrament wanted we to be when we infrequently dream in English given English had been your second denunciation given we were unequivocally little? This book unequivocally finished me think, and when Ziya travels opposite countries and continents to investigate in Harward, his homesickness felt so relatable to me. we mean, we had to stop and reread a passages over and over again given we was disturbed we missed stuff.
On one hand, it was an extraordinary reading experience, on another -- and greatfully trust me, when we contend it (I feel unequivocally guilty observant it!) -- during some point, it became usually a small bit too many work for me when we stopped utterly a few times to reread some pages and lessened my enjoinment of a book usually a small bit. That was many expected my possess reduction as an ESL orator that finished me weird out that we would skip something critical about this book and should not change your preference possibly to examination it or not. we theory we stressed myself out and substantially unnecessary.
The usually warning we wish to emanate is that a book is not romance. we did not go into a book awaiting one, and wish to make certain we will not either. There is a adore story and we learn a small bit about Ziya's dear closer to a finish of a book, yet it is initial and inaugural a story of Ziya's life, his attribute with his country, his family, his religion, his relations with America and English language.
Highly recommended.
Originally posted during reviews by JesseWave
2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
Jeffers gives us a rather severe yet deeply beguiling read!
By Bob Lind
Sometimes one needs to describe personal practice to a third party, in sequence to put them in correct viewpoint for one's possess life. That seems to be a outcome from this book, in that Ziya, a bilingual immature happy male lifted in Istanbul, relates 10 stories about his past life to his new lover, Adam. Since a stories are told chronologically, and build on any other to some extent, it reads some-more like a novel than a array of brief stories. We learn about a infirm practice in his childhood, his attribute with his relatives and siblings, his contemplative opinion toward his sexuality, and his proceed to relating to new acquaintances. By a finish of a book, we know Ziya many better, as he clearly seems to learn as well.
Jeffers is an glorious writer, who manages to embody clearly downright fact in his stories yet creation it a daze or weight for a reader. The gait is rather delayed yet concise, and a reader needs to fill in some gaps between a particular stories formed assumptions that can be finished formed on what he learns in a readings. It creates we think, that maybe isn't ideal for idle readers who direct to be entertained, yet is unequivocally rewarding to those who conclude such writings. Five stars out of five.
- Bob Lind, Echo Magazine
0 of 0 people found a following examination helpful.
Great read.
By mahattanAs a outline tells us, this book gives a reader a small bit of everything. As Ziya
As a outline tells us, this book gives a reader a small bit of everything. As Ziya tells Adam a stories of his life, a reader gets all a practice one would design in their life. Everything from transport to college to friendships and relationships, to a extensive highs and lows that life brings us. All of these practice are created in such a approach that is constrained to a reader yet boring a stories on some-more than they need to be. While a stories are chronological, any one is apart and distinct. Even with this being a case, there is still good upsurge between a stories and a reader does not get a clarity that a book is during all choppy or unconnected. In short, a book reads as if it were novel rather than a collection of stories put together to emanate a book.
What finished this book that many some-more well-developed was a fact that even yet it is fiction, a stories and characters within a book were so picturesque that it examination as a non-fiction book. The author gives such transparent descriptions that a reader simply achieves a transparent picture of a characters and settings. This helps emanate a clarity that a reader is concerned in a story. The characters are easy to brand with and creates a stories that many some-more realistic. As with any good book, this book offers party over a march of mixed readings. There are a series of small nuances and dark messages that can simply be glossed over by a initial reading. However, when going behind and reading some of a stories, a reader picks adult on these pointed messages that weren't apparent during a initial read.
All in all this whole book is unequivocally good created and unequivocally entertaining. Very easy to get held adult with a story and wish to know what comes next. The courtesy to fact that a author has is unequivocally what creates a book outstanding. Add to that a additional dark messages and sum that keep a book interesting to examination mixed times and have a high peculiarity book that this is.
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