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A Strangeness in My Mind

Author(s): Ekin Oklap (translator), Orhan Pamuk

Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)

Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation

Era(s): Contemporary

As a child, Mevlut always felt like he was missing out. When he moves to Istanbul – ‘the centre of the world’ – he is immediately enthralled. He wanders through its alleys for forty years, working as a street vendor and gaining a unique perspective of a radically changing city.

Mevlut watches his friends and relatives settle down and make their fortunes, while he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. He never manages to shake the ‘strangeness in his mind’, until at last fortune conspires to let him understand what it is he yearns for . . .

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