Strangeness in My Mind, a

Strangeness in My Mind, a

A mesmerizing love story with a cast of beguiling characters, from the Nobel prizewinning author Orhan Pamuk<br /> <br /> ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **<br /> <br /> Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature<br /> <br /> &#39;A magnificent novel.&#39; Wall Street Journal<br /> &#39;Powerful and moving.&#39; TLS &#39;Books of the Year&#39;<br /> &#39;Prepare to fall in love&#39; Mail on Sunday<br /> &#39;As head-exploding as War and Peace, and more comforting&#39; Elif Batuman<br /> <br /> As a child, Mevlut always felt like he was missing out. When he moves to Istanbul - &#39;the centre of the world&#39; - he is immediately enthralled. He wanders through its alleys for forty years, working as a street vendor and gaining a unique perspective of a radically changing city.<br /> <br /> Mevlut watches his friends and relatives settle down and make their fortunes, while he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. He never manages to shake the &#39;strangeness in his mind&#39;, until at last fortune conspires to let him understand what it is he yearns for . . .