Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/09/last-train-to-istanbul.htmlThe Last Train to Istanbul is a story of World War II - in particular the Turkish community in Europe at the time of the war. Originally published in Turkish in 2002, the book has now been tr...
I would never have opened this book if it hadn’t been given to me by a good friend. I consider it my duty, then, to read it – but not to give it a good review, sorry friend. I knew I would have trouble when I was able to count seven clichés on pages 10-12 alone. That’s the translator’s fault, though...
Regrettably, a worthy plot misplaced among the debris of feeble translation and natural inevitability.
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