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A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Rumi: Add a description of this character.
- Celal
- Galli
- Hale
- Celli
- Rilya
- Saim
- Vasif
- Suzan
- Grandmother
- Grandfather
- Albertine
- Raya
- Rtiya
- Esma Hamm
- Proust
- Ruya
- Shams
- Mehmet Yilmaz
- Alaaddin
- Ibn Zerhani
- F. M.
- Kamer Hamm
- Belkis
- Aliaddin
- Attar
- Mehdi
- Muhammed
- Aladdin
- Bey
- Salm
- Cehil
- Ibn' Arabi
- Ismail Efendi
- Abdi Pasha
- Rtiva
- Prince
- Hurufis
- Deccal
Setting & Locations edit
- Istanbul
- Turkey
- Bosphorus
- Anatolia
- Riiya
- Tabriz
- Damascus
- Paris
- Izmir
- Rilva
- Nisantasi
- Konya
- Europe
- Ittlya
- Karakoy
- Islam
- Celil
- Galata Bridge
- Hollywood
- Africa
- Cairo
- Horasan
- Riiva
- Sirkeci
- Republic
- Kayseri
- Galip
- Heaven
- Rtlya
- Texas
- Mount Kaf
- Itilya
- Dostoyevsky
First Sentence edit
Ruya slept on her stomach in the sweet and warm darkness under the blue-checkered quilt which covered the entire bed with its undulating, shadowy valleys and soft blue hills.
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Series & Lists edit
This book is in Outstanding books by Nobel Prizes in Literature. (community list)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 894.3533
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