This was way too long. Too much summarizing information we had just been told. It picks up in the last 200 pages but and I felt the ending was satisfying but I felt there were some potholes. Why could he take the elevator at the nursing home? And quite frankly how did his journey through the "underworld" help Mariye in any way? Am I being obtuse? And yeah it was creepy that Mariye and the narrator talk about her boobs so much... She's supposed to be so smart and inquisitive but she just obsesses over them constantly and confides about it to her art teacher for no reason...?