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The center of the Turkish film industry—which put out seven hundred films a year in those days and was ranked second largest in the world, after India—was in Beyoğlu, on Yeşilçam Street, only ten minutes away,
Orhan Pamuk • Istanbul (Vintage International)


I also liked it because it allowed me to justify the impulse of tenderness roused in me by Michele’s manner, which has remained candid and ingenuous, even now that he’s almost fifty. When he calls me “mamma” I respond in a tone that’s severe yet loving, the same I used with Riccardo when he was a child. But now I see that it was a mistake; he was t
... See moreAnn Goldstein • Forbidden Notebook
The siblings’ identity cards came in handy here, at last; Anabiya was an influential region, and many of its sons were fighting in the Free Army, based in the countryside north of Aleppo.
Khaled Khalifa • Death Is Hard Work
fifteenth? This would require access to a store with the
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
