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Chapters 1-4

• The story opens with the soul of the character Elegant describing his murder.

• He realizes that since no one has found his body, that his family probably thinks he is off doing inappropriate things.

• He believes that his death is just part of a conspiracy against his religion and traditions and warns of implications.
• Black is introduced as someone who is returning to Istanbul after traveling and working for twelve years.

• He tells how he fell in love with the man who offered him an apprenticeship and when it was discouraged, he left Istanbul.

• Black wanders into a coffee house where there is a storyteller giving different vioces to various parts of a picture to depict his story.

• At the end of this section, the murderer is confessing to killing Elegant but wandering aimlessing wondering how people will treat him and feel about him, but he...

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