A book I wish I’d been able to read under the tutelage of a really good decolonial teacher/lecturer. As it stands on its own and on my own, I simply felt not clever enough to grasp what Salih was putting across. I did read the introduction afterwards which was quite helpful (and does give away the entire plot), as apparently it’s turning colonial narratives like Heart of Darkness on their heads. It may seem unfair to rate it so low when I didn’t get a lot of it, but it’s more for me to look back on my personal enjoyment of the book. It took me 8 days to read 159 pages so 😅