A Strange Woman by Leyla Erbil

Author:Leyla Erbil [Erbil, Leyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

her eyes are fixed on my ships,

the Altay,

the Adalet,

the Kırlangıç,

the Hocazade,

the Ümran,

the Raman,

the Hacıoğlu.

She strokes my hand from time to time, she’s watching over me, if I get well … I’ll drag her … I don’t even believe in it, but … I’ll drag this girl to one of those hodjas, have him pray over her, breathe on her; I’ll get my child back if I get well …

Back in the old country, tuberculosis, rain, and hookworms are abundant. There’s no sun. The hookworms may be due to the use of fresh human shit as manure, according to our Dr. Korkut; could be, though, that those driven to Russia by hunger to work in the mines and tunnels brought them back. When hookworms became rife in the mansions of Istanbul, on the Islands, in Therapia, and Beykoz, they said: It’s the people from over there who came to Istanbul looking for work that brought them, why don’t they just stay put, it’s not like we go to their towns, do we, each to his own house, each to his own village, and besides, what about their oil, copper, zinc, manganese, the Genoese exploited it back in 1355. And what about Vasilaki, Yani Yuvandi, Siraioti, mined four thousand tons of ore before the First World War, let them do some mining themselves, and stay out of Istanbul!

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