Chapter 7: Galata Bridge (345 - 401) / Entire Book

[Lily]

This thread is for discussion through Chapter 7: Galata Bridge and of the book as a whole.

[Lily]

I started this yesterday and finished it today. So it goes into that category I designate as "good reads."

The genres I read include very little high adventure, mystery, or crime, so I can't speak to how this novel would stand up to the best of them. But, with no spoilers whatsoever, I can say it captured my attention and held it -- despite deep frustrations at times with sentence fragments.

I see Karon compared favorably with Graham Greene and John le Carré. While I have never read a le Carré book, I have tried Graham Greene, and it seems to me his facility with the English language is greater than Karon's -- perhaps that is what seemed would require effort and caused me to set it aside at a time when I wanted something more like Karon or Stieg Larsson or Roslund and Hellström ( Three Seconds ).

[Lily]

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Imagine the scenes in this chapter taking place in this setting!



Shows the position of Galata Bridge from the air.

http://www.allaboutturkey.com/galata.htm

The page at this link is a very interesting quick read on Galata and Galata Bridge with lots of references to places included in our story.

[Lily]

Minarets of Istanbul, at a distance and up close, from Galata Bridge.

Quotation from text -- contains plot line hints:

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Leon scanned the crowd up ahead. Maybe a quarter of the way across now, Melnikov here soon. I think you may be surprised. Some teenage boys ran out of the stairway from the restaurant level below. Where he and Kay had had lunch, looking at minarets, Ed embarrassed to stumble on them. Years ago.

Kanon, Joseph (2012-05-29). Istanbul Passage. (p. 373). Simon & Schuster, Inc. Kindle Edition.

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