Farewell: A Mansion In Occupied Istanbul (Turkish Literature) - Plot & Excerpts
He wasn’t particularly close to most of his fellow Cabinet ministers and had grown weary of the interminable, inconclusive bickering. He kept the fact that his feelings for His Majesty had cooled considerably to himself. In any case, the best way for Ahmet Reşat to gain information of possible use to the resistance was to remain silent, alert. He was pained and somewhat ashamed at the situation in which he found himself, and sometimes felt that his activities were those of a hypocritical traitor. Yet all he asked for was an independent country, at peace. His street encounters with the forces of the occupation were becoming increasingly unbearable and as he set about the government business that frequently brought him face to face with foreigners he struggled to contain his contempt and resentment. Life at the ministry was tedious at best, and life at home wasn’t much better: he felt like a rooster shut up in an overcrowded henhouse. None of his intimate friends or confidants lived nearby, and the conditions of the day prevented visits to far-flung districts of Istanbul.
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