Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-

A strangeness in my mind : a novel / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap. - First American edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2015 - 599 pages ; 25 cm

Includes index.

Selling Turkish spirits on the street and dreaming of becoming rich in a rapidly developing Istanbul, street youth Melvut Karatas elopes with the wrong woman and builds a family over decades marked by a series of dead-end jobs and an enduring sense of his unique destiny.


Translated from the Turkish to English.

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Street vendors---Turkey---Istanbul----Fiction


Istanbul (Turkey)---Social life and customs----Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)---Social conditions----Fiction

PL248.P34 / K3513 2015

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