Said is again at Nur’s apartment awaiting her return, “staring up at the cracked white ceiling, a dull echo of the threadbare carpet, killing time”(p 219). Nur’s apartment is surrounded by a lot of graves, “laid out as far as the eye can see”(p 218).
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Tags: Nur’s Apartment, Place
March 1, 2009 at 11:49 am
The sense of place relates to themes of silence and solitude. The sense of place also reflects the plot development of the novel . Nur’s apartment is located in “a city of silence and truth, where success and failure, murder and victim come together, where thieves and policemen lie side by side in peace for the first (218).