"ın my mid twenties I moved to Ist. the city I adore * I lived in a very vibrant diverse neighborhood where I wrote several of my novels. I was in Ist. when the earthquake hit in 1999. when I ran out of a building at the 3 in the morning I saw sth that stopped me in my tracks. there was a local grocer there a grumpy, old man who didn't sell alcohol and didn't speak to marginals. he was sitting next to transvitite with black-long black wig- and mascara running down her** cheeks. I watched the man open a pack of cigarretteswith trembling hands and offer one to her. and that is the image of the night of eartquake in my mind todaya conservative grocer and a crying a transvestite smoking together on the sidewalk. on the face of death and destructrion our mundane differences evaporated. and we all became one even a few hours but I have always believed that stories too have a similar effect on us"
e.ş.
* bunu çok uydurma buldum
** his dememek için bir sebep bulamaz his diyip dururdum, takdir ettim.