Last year a NYU sophomore visiting Barcelona with her parents from Istanbul asked me if I read any Turkish novels. I answered that I only read some contemporary novels and not much of the classics since I find their plots too simple and mainly chauvinistic to say the least. Then I asked her if there was anything she recommended. To my surprise she said she liked Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali. To be frank I had never heard of this book when I was at school age. It wa