Bigger boys were known to stand at street corners, smoking stompies of cigarettes and rolls of dagga.

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Shafak sketches these Armenians flatly and superficially, as uniformly and fiercely anti-Turk — and as overprotectively fretful about beautiful and bookish Armanoush.

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