A winter evening in Istanbul in the late Seventies. Political murders, disappearances and torture are daily events, and a military coup seems to be in the offing. Galip, a young lawyer whose speciality is defending political prisoners, returns home to find that his wile Rüya has left him. His instinctive response is to pretend that nothing has happened - Rüya is simply too ill to leave the apartment or come to the telephone. He then begins to scour the city looking for her.

LRB 5 October 1995 | PDF Download