'A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame'Financial Times 'The surprise bestseller ... read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages'Guardian 'The magical novel about a Turkish man who falls in love with an artist in 1920s Berlin ... recreates a vanished era and dramatises a doomed relationship with verve, depth and poignancy. The result is a miniature masterpiece'The National 'A heart-breaker . . . it has the kind of indefinably powerful impact of The Great Gatsby' Observer 'Moving and memorable, full of yearning and melancholy' The Times 'A gorgeously melancholic romance' Irish Times