to me the conflict going on between the two regions. Did Mustafa kill his .
wife and the other because of the influence of the East or West? He .
doesn't want people who have experinced both to reflect and make .
judgmenats on his life. He secludes himself in the village to escape the .
pressures of knowing both East and West. He confines himself to the .
village life and tries to be the model person. I also find it ironic that .
it is in fact the narrator, some one who knows both east and west, who .
ultimately takes control the remains of his life. Effendi must nw judge .
what he discovers and make a morality decision on if what he is doing is .
right or wrong, knowing both his past and the two different worlds. .
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Emily .
I really don't like writing about a book I've not yet finished reading, .
but then again, my slackerly self has a fair bit left to read. I could .
have hied myself off my lazy duff over the weekend to read, but I'm afraid .
more compelling things found me than Salih's book. However, that is not .
to say that I'm not enjoying it . . . .
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I'm finding a slight trend, Michael, in the books we read. First, a .
pleasant straightforward read followed by a book of convoluted chronology .
and devious plotting. Corruption was not so difficult to wend my way .
through, Season of Migration is proving more challenging. But I'm equal. .
Just lazy. .
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I started out on a thought early in the book that I don't think really .
follows well throughout the rest (at least that which I have read thus .
far), but I take this from pages 9-11. "He knows that this is my village .
adn that it is he - not I - who is the stranger" (9) the narrator says of .
Mustafa Sa'eed. And on page 11, Mustafa makes mention of a secret the .
narrator's grandfather knows. The narrator seems slightly put off by this .
suggestion, "My grandfather has no secrets." .
However, apparently his grandfather does. Secrets Mustafa Sa'eed knows .
that the narrator (does he have a name? Am I missing it?) does not.