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First of all, I must say that although he is criticized, my admiration for Tahsin Yücel is increasing day by day. While she is able to create such a fluent fiction in the novels she writes, the underlying message she gives and the realities she brings to our attention are extraordinary... The book is about how a girl named Kumru comes to Istanbul with her husband, Pehlivan, to the doorman's office after being married off in the village with bride price, and how she gets caught up in the city life afterwards. The biggest criticism of the book was made about the "refrigerator" issue. Kumru's admiration and passion for the refrigerator, which she met at the house where she went to clean, may have been a little exaggerated or over-processed, but that's where the whole story was. How else could humanity's addiction to matter and objects be explained? I read it without ever getting bored, always wondering about Kumru's adaptation to something new and Pehlivan's attitude towards her. My dear Yücel, the fact that every detail that we thought was the most important until we acquired it turned into nothing after it became ours could only be explained so beautifully, my dear Yücel.
