Given the recent political turmoil in Turkey, I thought this book was very topical. The protagonist is a Turkish journalist living in Germany who returns to Turkey in the 1970s to write an article about girls who are committing suicide in small town. With the very secular government, the girls were forced to abandon their hijab in order to go to school or go to work.

I thought that the protagonist beautiful expressed the views of both the secular and the religious sides in the conflict but that it became somewhat repetitive. Did not think much of the protagonist either, but overall I thought this was a really good book and does a lot to explain what is happening in Turkey today. Any thoughts???

Of course, it does not come close to one of his other books "My name is Red".