Ayse Kulin

It’s interesting, she thought, that one isn’t scared of death from a distance, but when it is staring you in the face it feels like a merciless enemy that you desperately want to avoid.

Maybe it was time for Tarık to grow up, for him to realize that life didn’t consist of just going back and forth to work, that love wasn’t about being enamored with a woman who could never be his. Maybe meeting Muhlis was a godsend. Was Muhlis the mediator who could bring him out of his shell, introduce him to new friends and new places? Could he widen his horizons by introducing him to the Paris nightlife, where he could enjoy the company of women?

His apartment mate who had verbal diarrhea had certainly managed to add some color to his life.