![]() During the period of time during which the book is set he describes a myriad of characters who all book a room at The Motherland Hotel. As a result he gets a wide array of guests that include visitors to the town, lovers having illicit affairs and prostitutes servicing their customers. Zeberjet’s hotel is in the Turkish town of Izmir near the railroad tracks and is not the highest end establishment in town. His hotel, handed down to him through generations of his maternal family, provides him all of the social outlet that he needs. ![]() It’s not that he hasn’t wanted to go outside, but it seems more the case that he just hasn’t been interested in the outside world. Zeberjet, the middle-aged man who is the main character of this novel, says a few times throughout his story that he is “neither dead nor alive.” Zeberjet works in the same hotel in which he was born and he rarely ventures outside of its walls. The book was published in the original Turkish in 1973 and this English version has been translated by Fred Stark. ![]() I received an advance review copy of this title from City Lights Publishing. ![]()
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