His sense of missing something leads him sometimes to the politics of his friends and intermittently to the teachings of a charismatic religious guide. 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. As he watches his relations settle down and make their fortunes, 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. But luck never seems to be on Mevlut’s side.

He follows his father’s trade, selling boza (a traditional mildly alcoholic Turkish drink) on the street, and hoping to become rich, like other villagers who have settled the desolate hills outside the booming metropolis. Not getting as far in school as he’d hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul–“the center of the world”–and is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karatas has fantasized about what his life would become. You can read this before A Strangeness in My Mind PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red: a soaring, panoramic new novel–his first since The Museum of Innocence–telling the unforgettable tale of an Istanbul street vendor and the love of his life. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Strangeness in My Mind written by Orhan Pamuk which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk

A strangeness in my mind