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The Messenger Boy Murders (Paperback)

by Perihan Magden (Author), Richard Hamer (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Milet Publishing Ltd; 1st English Ed edition (1 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840593644
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840593648
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Translated by Richard Hamer From a popular and innovative Turkish author, this darkly comic, irreverent and hypnotic murder mystery, explores humanity's endless absurdity and its futile attempts to create perfection. A failure in his youth, our narrator wanders exotic worlds before returning to his hometown, the Motherland. Here, the inhabitants never talk about evil events, but the messenger boy murders are different: an intoxicating mystery that lures our narrator into the city's strange characters and even stranger secrets...
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4.0 out of 5 stars A thoughtful entertainment..., 2 Oct 2009
By Mutt (Ankara, Turkey) - See all my reviews
Popular Turkish author and newspaper columnist Perihan Mağden ("2 Girls") made an unobtrusive and largely unnoticed international debut with this exquisite English language translation by Richard Hammer of her quirky and innovative 1991 hardboiled-detective science-fiction hybrid homage made available by Millet Publishing.

Unwilling amateur detective Stavrogin makes for an occasionally insightful and often entertaining narrator as he analyses the bizarre characters, often referred to merely by the nicknames he assigns, who he encounters in his attempt to solve the twisted mystery at the heart of his exotic hometown, which assumes a character uniquely its own.

The burgeoning author, a Psychology graduate of Istanbul's Bosphorous University, draws upon her academic knowledge as well as her experiences living in India and the Far East to weave a truly extraordinary and disconcerting tale that constantly surprises, confounds and amuses as it twists its way towards a heartrending conclusion.

Like strolling through a field sown with laughter mines.
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