Publisher's Synopsis
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, the 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 the narrator towards the city's strange characters and even stranger secrets...
