White Nights

4.5 Stars.

If you didn't like this book , you probably didn't get it .

Fyodor's genius story is not just about two people meet and instantly one of them fall in love with the other . no .
It's about how fragile human soul is . how desperate we are for love , even when we can't admit it , or don't want to admit it . It's not about a simple boring man , who wonders around at night and meets a random girl . it's about a lost spirit who can't cope with people easily ,because they cannot see the world as he sees it . he doesn't see himself as unsocial , because he can connect to things in a way people don't get. he notices the houses on his street . he knows the people's faces . but he can't commit to the social conventions of saying hi and chatting , talking about everyday's none sense , for him , it doesn't work like that .

I like reading about these kinds of characters because it reminds me of my own character (or personality ) ; i totally get being socially awkward , or feeling like you don't belong to the same world that the people around you are living in, maybe that's another reason that made me fall in love with this story .

There's something in Fyodor's style that's just Right . so right that i'm falling hopelessly in love with him ! i came to realize that i can relate to his writing , even after reading only two books by him . i think he writes what we human are afraid to show , afraid of that thing that people might see if they looked deeply into our soul . our true self.
And writing about that makes him a Genius .



Finally , my favorite quote in the whole book , this literally made me go crazy ! it was so beautiful that i reread it multiple times . it got me . it surely did :
...This is why we almost greeted one another at times , specially when we were both in a happy frame of mind.The other day when we met after an interval of two whole days , we were actually on the point of raising our hats but , fortunately , we pulled ourselves up in time ,dropped our hands and passed each other by with unspoken sympathy in our hearts.