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A strangeness in my mind

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Penguin Random House 2015 GurgaonDescription: xix, 599 pISBN:
  • 9780143427582
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 894.3533 P2S8
Summary: Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karataş is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems to be on Mevlut’s side. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he has seen just once, only to elope by mistake with her sister. Although he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have together, Mevlut stumbles toward middle age as everyone around him seems to be reaping the benefits of a rapidly modernizing Turkey. Told through the eyes of a diverse cast of characters, in A Strangeness in My Mind Nobel-prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk paints a brilliant tableau of life among the newcomers who have changed the face of Istanbul over the past fifty years. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212404/a-strangeness-in-my-mind-by-orhan-pamuk/
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 44-A / Slot 2480 (3rd Floor, East Wing) Fiction General Stacks 894.3533 P2S8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 204034

Originally published in Turkish language as Kafamda bir tuhaflik by Kredi Yayinlari in 2013

Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karataş is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems to be on Mevlut’s side. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he has seen just once, only to elope by mistake with her sister. Although he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have together, Mevlut stumbles toward middle age as everyone around him seems to be reaping the benefits of a rapidly modernizing Turkey. Told through the eyes of a diverse cast of characters, in A Strangeness in My Mind Nobel-prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk paints a brilliant tableau of life among the newcomers who have changed the face of Istanbul over the past fifty years.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212404/a-strangeness-in-my-mind-by-orhan-pamuk/

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