Summary

In Chapter 10, Harun tells his companion that the day after he killed the Frenchman, he was awoken by the smell of coffee and sound of his mother singing. He had not heard him her singing in years. He decided not to go out and instead went back to sleep. His mother woke him telling him that two soldiers had come about the shots heard the night before. The colonel wanted Harun to come to the town hall to talk to him. Harun wondered what the soldiers really wanted from him. He believed they would not convict him of guilt in the murder of the Frenchman even if he were to show up with that man’s body. He thought instead because he was so different from other people that the soldiers wanted to question him.

When Harun finally went to the town hall, five...