She had brought along a few of her favourite books, some in Turkish, others in English – Sadegh Hedayet’s The Blind Owl, Alice Munro’s The Love of a Good Woman, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Oǧuz Atay’s Tutunamayanlar, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World.
