In "Long Distance", Turkish author Ayşegül Savaş brings us thirteen short stories about the lives of educated female expats in various cities in Europe - as she is herself, and so is my daughter-in-law. She writes with a lot of compassion, psychological insights in relationships and tenderness in a style that is both elegant and descriptive. But the problems these educated female expats encounter are almost limited to relational aspects, and this gives the whole book a very 'bourgeois' feel, if I can use this terrible word. I am not moved by their problems and issues and relationships, but possibly that says more about my lack of relating to the characters than to Savaş's writing.
This is not my subject.
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