“The city was poor,
it wasn’t Europe, and I wanted to be a writer, and I wondered, ‘Can I be happy
and live in this city and realize my ambition?’
These were the dilemmas I was
facing,” he told me.
“When I published it the younger generation told me, ‘Our
Istanbul is not that black and white, we are happier here.’
They didn’t want to
know about the melancholy, my kind of dirty history of the city.”
-Joshua Hammer
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