The Sound of Fishsteps
by Buket Uzuner
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This was such a big disappointment. I remember seeing this book in a bookstore for the first time during a visit in Istanbul. That time I didn't buy it, but I spent a long time trying to remember the title and author. I only remembered the general idea as it was described in the blurb. I thought it was promising and exciting.
The novel, however, did not deliver. The storyline fell flat and the characters did not develop much, save maybe for the protagonist who could have just as well been an average schoolgirl. A lot of cliches. It took me months to get through the book, but because I invested so much time to find it in the first place, I really wanted to give it a chance. Not recommended, despite the promising idea.
The novel, however, did not deliver. The storyline fell flat and the characters did not develop much, save maybe for the protagonist who could have just as well been an average schoolgirl. A lot of cliches. It took me months to get through the book, but because I invested so much time to find it in the first place, I really wanted to give it a chance. Not recommended, despite the promising idea.
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Buket Uzuner was born October 3, 1955 in Ankara, Turkey. She is an author of novels, short stories and travelogues. She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Buket Uzuner travels as "solo woman backpacker" since 1980s including show more "inter-rail" tours in Europe and in three other continents while writing her travel memoirs. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. Uzuner wrote two more travel books as Travel Notes of An Urban Romantic which questions the meaning of exoticism and New York Logbook which are all collected lately in Travel Library of Buket Uzuner. In 2013 her novel Istanbullular is published in USA by Dalkey Archive Press with the title of I Am Istanbul. Uzuner's books have been on the Turkish best-seller lists since 1992. They are taught in a number of Turkish universities. In 1993, Buket Uzuner was awarded Turkey's Yunus Nadi prize for the novel The Sound of Fishsteps, and in 1998 Mediterranean Waltz was named novel of the year by the University of Istanbul. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 894.3533 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Turkic languages Turkish Turkish fiction 1850–2000
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- PL248 .U98 .B35 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Turkic languages
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