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Istanbul's transformation through a vendor's eyes.

"A Strangeness in My Mind" is for you if you've ever felt like an outsider looking in, intrigued by the idea of a city's heartbeat changing with time. Orhan Pamuk crafts a tapestry of Istanbul's metamorphosis through the life of Mevlut, making the city as much a character as the protagonist himself. Mevlut's journey is both literal and emotional, mapping not just the geographic but also the psychosocial shifts over half a century. Dive in to explore the intimate corners of human aspirations and the peculiar sense of feeling strange in one's mind.

  • Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2017)
  • International Booker Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
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A Strangeness in My Mind

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ISBN: 9781101972311
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 2016-04-07
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.15
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A cross between a history manual and private memoir, A Strangeness in My Mind is above all a love letter to Istanbul in all its faded, messy, dusty glory. At the age of twelve, Mevlut Karata comes to Istanbul, hoping to make it rich--yet luck never seems to be on his side. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake with her sister. And though he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have, he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. But every evening, without fail, Mevlut still wanders the streets of Istanbul, until fortune conspires once more to let him understand at last what he has always yearned for. Told from different perspectives by a host of beguiling characters, A Strangeness in My Mind is a modern epic about coming of age in a great city, and a brilliant tableau of life in Istanbul over the past fifty years, from Nobel Prize-winning, bestselling author Orhan Pamuk.
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  • Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2017)
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  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
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