A strangeness in my mind5/18/2023 But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. He observes many different kinds of people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get demolished and re-built, and he sees migrants from Anatolia making a fortune at the same time, he witnesses all of the transformative moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country. In the four decades between 19, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years.
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