![]() ![]() Malcolm Forbes, The NationalĪ shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. recreates a vanished era and dramatises a doomed relationship, and does so with verve, depth and poignancy. Offsets inter-war Berlin's decadent dazzle with bouts of shade, murk and melancholy. ![]() William Armstrong, Times Literary Supplement The translation by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe is crisp, capturing Ali's directness and clarity of language. The gap between hope and reality, art and ordinary life, has been explored in many other novels, but rarely with the unaffected simplicity of Madonna in a Fur Coat. ![]() Eileen Battersby, The Irish TimesĪ poignant coming-of-age tale, drenched in disillusionment. Toby Lichtig, Financial TimesĪ gorgeously melancholic romance. a little reminiscent of Turgenev's First Love, with a hero every bit as gauche, and a twist every bit as bitter. This is above all a tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame. Its prose sparkles with the friction between eastern conservatism and western decadence. Short, moving and memorable: reading it is like taking a literary minibreak. ![]()
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