The novel opens in a provincial mental health hospital on the morning of the 14th February 2007 and comes to a cataclysmic end several hours later Lacklustre guest speaker ('Love: Self-sacrifice? Or Self-preservation?') lk Birinci fails to impress the Medical Director, whose plans to write the history of the hospital are destined to remain stillborn. Town elder T rkan, retired judge and staunch Kemalist, leaves him gaping at her photographic...