A strangeness in my mind
Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-2015
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This is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get demolished and re-built, and he sees migrants from Anatolia making a fortune; at the same time, he witnesses all of the transformative moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is.
Main title:
A strangeness in my mind / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.
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London : Faber & Faber, 2015.
Collation:
xiii, 599 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780571275977 (hbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishTurkish
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BRN:
2171022
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