A Strangeness in My Mind

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A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is a master of unhurried narrative, you can lost through the story from the first pages.
"A Strangeness in My Mind” is a story about Istanbul and one of its residents – Mevlut Kartas. Mevlut is a street vendor, who arrives in to Istanbul in 1969 to get an education and helps his father.
We meet him at the moment when he returns to his native Anatolia to kidnap his future wife. And this is how the narrator describes the fate of the young Mevlut and his relationship: first with his father and later with his wife.
Throughout the novel Mevlut senses a disconnect between self and the world – and his lifelong efforts to harmonize the two. Mevlut walks at night on streets of Instanbul to sell his boza, for me its a journey, effort to find happiness and his own place in this urban jungle. Author present a history of Istanbul through main character from 1969 to the 2012. Through that period city changed in many ways - cultural, societal and identity aspect, both in a positive and negative way.
The novel has everything: historical background, love story, social and cultural trabulences, multi-vocal narration.
Novel is magnifcent - elaborate, full of melancholy and reflection on yourself and the world.