Name: Madonna in a Fur Coat
Rating: 4.008333333333334 (36 reviews)

Sabahattin Ali

'The pain of losing something precious can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.'

A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a chance meeting transforms his life forever. Caught between his desire for freedom and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found.

Madonna in a Fur Coat

my heart is aching and i don’t know when will it stop.

The story fell a bit too flat for my liking, although, what I enjoyed reading in this book was Maria Puder's dialogues. She was a woman of her own and i resonated with a lot of her thoughts and feelings.

It is quite overhyped on social media and it had been on my tbr for quite a long time so i got really underwhelmed when i read this. I want to give it another read sometime soon. 

march🐇

The story fell a bit too flat for my liking, although, what I enjoyed reading in this book was Maria Puder's dialogues. She was a woman of her own and i resonated with a lot of her thoughts and feelings.

It is quite overhyped on social media and it had been on my tbr for quite a long time so i got really underwhelmed when i read this. I want to give it another read sometime soon. 

wanted very badly to like this but it was like hey what if a miscommunication trope was 200 pages long. idk everyone just seemed needlessly miserable which #relatable but also just lost sympathy after he has a whole ass family that he admittedly feels nothing towards after having a segment mourning about how he wished he had an active father in his life. he starts off assuming the worst of maria (assuming she is out with other men when she's actually performing) and ends assuming the worst of her (assuming she is out with other men when she literally dies???) and i am like supposed to be convinced this is a real lover? maybe i need to try again but honestly i did everything in my power to enjoy this so i think started from annoyance would not fare much better. i will admit this was tragic but some of it was needlessly so! maybe i need to fall in love but also if this is what it transforms me into i think i'm ok!

tiff <3

This book made me feel so many emotions and I hope other people feel the same amount of despair and joy I did 

Jiya

Ali pulls at the threads of emotion with the same instinctual autopilot as I make my morning coffee. The depth to which the soul offers itself up for examination in this book is something I usually encounter on midnight walks and drives back from vacation, these yearning pieces neglected but ever-presently waiting to be touched. A contemplation on what it means to open yourself up to someone, to create something of them for yourself, and to move beyond your reality to a point of no return, Madonna In A Fur Coat is a melancholy testament to the murderous condition of loneliness before and after love. Explored through a satirically apolitical, self-focused narrator, Ali has created a frighteningly summative portrayal of a generation's longing for more.

Madonna in a Fur Coat

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