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brianreynolds
Apr 20, 2013
Reader's of Joseph Kanon's Istanbul Passage are provided with a detailed map of the Bosporus region and urban Istanbul of 1945. I wore out the book flipping back to see where I was. I was, nevertheless, still lost somewhat in the sea of characters and sentence fragments, the fog of history just prior to my childhood. Thrillers ought to be breathless and mysterious and Kanon manages both. I'm still in doubt, however, as to whether my muddle was the result of encroaching senility or a lack of clarity in the writing.