![]() ![]() ![]() At nearly 600 pages, it is much weightier than any of the other titles nominated this year and I felt a bit daunted by its length at first. ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ is the first book I’ve read by Pamuk who is one of the most well-known authors on the Man Booker International Prize longlist having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. Over the course of four decades, he observes the political upheavals in the city and also experiences many personal challenges. He later elopes and marries Rayiha despite a case of mistaken identity in which he believed his love letters were being delivered to her sister. Melvut arrives in the city at the age of twelve in the late 1960s with his father from a poor village in Anatolia. Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap, ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ by Orhan Pamuk tells the story of Mevlut Karata, a yoghurt and boza seller who lives in Istanbul. ![]()
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