Turkey's generals are no doubt raising an ironic glass of raki to his success.

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Kemal's tale is told over raki to Mr Pamuk, who breaks cover to reveal his authorship (having also danced awkwardly with Fusun at Kemal's engagement party).

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The waters flowed past the tables and their carafes of raki, the lilacs were in bloom and the mosques were in full song with the adhan, the call to prayer.

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Then Istanbullus realized that they'd been eating one of the world's finest cuisines all along: their own meyhane (taverna) food -- mezes, kebabs, and fresh fish -- to be consumed with raki, preferably in sight of the Bosporus.

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By the same token, he never wrote about his wartime experience as a liaison officer with the partisan guerrillas in Crete except to mention the swagger-black boots and mulberry sash of his disguise, and the evenings of drinking raki and cracking walnuts outside their mountain hideouts.

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