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291 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
Nefise receives a proposal of marriage, the young man doesn’t understand her rejection of him:
‘I am a Republican,’ Nefise had said, ‘and you are an army officer serving an Empire. We have nothing in common.’
Ted had been shaken; he found politics unsavoury. However, while an honourable officer might not be interested in politics, he would not hesitate to die for his King and country if necessary.
‘What country?’ Nefise had said, ‘Is India your country?’
‘the essence of things that happen, the reasons for them and the results, the impact they have on individual psyches, the impressions on inner selves, have always been the issues of paramount importance to my mind.’
‘Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whose being supplied the sap which has sustained my country’s life; that major poet Nazim Hikmet; and the major writer Virginia Woolf, whose work has drawn me closer to the writer hidden in me’