Bibliograph

A strangeness in my mind, being the adventures and dreams of Mevlut Karatas, a seller of boza, and of his friends, and a portrait of life in Istanbul between 1969 and 2012 from many different points of view, Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap

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A strangeness in my mind, being the adventures and dreams of Mevlut Karatas, a seller of boza, and of his friends, and a portrait of life in Istanbul between 1969 and 2012 from many different points of view, Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap

Language

eng

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A strangeness in my mind

Oclc number

923024144

Responsibility statement

Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap

Sub title

being the adventures and dreams of Mevlut Karatas, a seller of boza, and of his friends, and a portrait of life in Istanbul between 1969 and 2012 from many different points of view

Summary

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

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