A Strangeness in My Mind

Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) is a famous Turkish writer, winner of numerous national and international awards, who critics rank alongside D. Joyce,

H. L. Borges and W. Eco. His novels have been translated into over 60 languages ​​and have sold millions of copies, attracting great interest from both Turkish and international readers. In 2006, Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “searching for the soul of his melancholic city.” Almost all of the writer’s novels are set in Istanbul, a mysterious and beautiful city that has experienced both its heyday and decline.

The novel “A Strangeness in My Mind,” on which Pamuk worked for six years, is one of the most “Istanbul-like.” It is a story about love for a woman, a city, and life. The main character Mevlüt sells yogurt, buza, pilaf and ice cream on the streets of the city, watching it change before his eyes. Before us is a completely happy man, although he wrote letters to one girl and married another, who bore him two daughters and only after her death did he realize that he loved her.