Madonna in a Fur Coat

should i blame the translation? it felt a little bit flat for me. buttttt while i did not like the novel, the 1920's berlin setting is one of the few things i enjoyed here (am a huge admirer of Fosse's CABARET—as a matter of fact i noticed lots of similarities here. maybe i should read Goodbye to Berlin soon!). i'm interested in reading more fiction set in this period!

why are we here? just to suffer?

So dark and beautiful and honest and destructive. I loved it.

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.