It starts off with this really fairy-tale like sequence, full of symbolism. The best bits of this book are the beginning and the end. I'd say it's a tentative 3.5-star book, just because I'm not sure. At any rate, I liked it enough despite the fact that it's historical fiction and not fantasy, so *shrug*. Still, this goes to show that it wasn't particularly exciting to me, because I've powered through books in the middle of the night whilst dead-tired because I really wanted to know what happens next. I feel that the reading of this book was slightly impacted by the fact that I was reading it in spurts, mainly while on various trains, and whilst really sleepy. For listeners of The Island, The Book Thief and The Kite Runner. Here he left everything he ever wanted and, by cover of darkness, risking his life, he is searching every house, every cafe, every old pathway, for just a glimpse of the only woman he has ever loved. Meanwhile, Adem Berker finds himself back in Kyrenia, his former home, now as a member of the invading force. To talk of the Turkish shoemaker who came to the town and took her heart away with him when he left.Īnd how she has longed for him all these years.
But, held captive with the very women who have made her life so lonely, Koki is finally able to tell them the truth. So she lives outside the town and hides from her neighbours' eyes. And when she became pregnant and there was no sign of a husband, her fate was sealed. They never believed she was her father's daughter and her mother died too soon to quiet their wagging tongues. But for some, it is a chance to begin living again.Įveryone has always talked about Koki. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī moving novel of love and war by the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Here he left everything he ever wanted and, by cover of darkness, risking his life, he is searching every house, every cafe, every old pathway, for just a glimpse of the only woman he has ever loved.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
And how she has longed for him all these years. To talk of the Turkish shoe-maker who came to the town and took her heart away with him when he left. But for some, it is a chance to begin living again. It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus.
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