Not a word about my mother, or any thoughts, and the few lines written later, back at the hotel, make no mention of the first encounter with Petros, below the Ottoman castle, which definitely happened that night, after the meal, when I strolled along the waterfront road as far as it went, to the castle entrance."
-- Narration (I)

Importance: This passage foregrounds the novel’s concern with memory and narration. Teresa’s surprise at what her notebooks omit highlights the instability of the past and the impossibility of recording it fully. The absence of her mother and Petros from this entry suggests how subjective memory is, shaped as much by what is forgotten as by what is preserved. It also signals the novel’s hall-of-mirrors structure: Teresa reads her own narration, questions its gaps, and rewrites the past for the reader, blurring the distinction between lived experience and later reconstruction.

To end the...
-- Narration / Tom (I)