He’s decided on a different sort of drama, a territory of intrigue and tricks, entirely absorbing, with other sources of suspense. “Before the protests at Gezi Park, his unfaithful wife had been the largest of his problems.” So thinks Murat, a debt-ridden Turkish real estate developer, early in the book. But the riots, the politics, they have corrupted a system that was once reliably corrupt. A construction license can no longer be bought.” The man’s balance of troubles — a painful marriage eclipsed by a whole country’s instability — points to elements of the plot to come. We will read about a wife who wants to leave her husband, but geopolitics and a “web of interests and counterinterests” will have everything to do with the outcome.

Source: New York Times May 26, 2020 09:00 UTC