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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First American Edition. SOARING: PANORAMIC: UNFORGETTABLE: MESMERIZING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2015) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners BUT neatly price-clipped 1.0" on the diagonal at top-right inside-front flyleaf * 6.28" x 9.50" x 1.50", 0.94 kg, xvi+604 (620) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From the Nobel Prize winning best-selling author of "Snow" & "My Name Is Red", a SOARING, PANORAMIC new novel--his first since "The Museum of Innocence"--telling the UNFORGETTABLE tale of an Istanbul street vendor & the love of his life. Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karata? has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of 12 he comes to Istanbul--"the center of the world"--& is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing & the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a traditional mildly alcoholic Turkish drink) on the street & hoping to become rich, like other villagers who have settled the desolate hills outside the booming metropolis. But luck never seems to be on Mevlut's side. As he watches his relations settle down & make their fortunes, he spends 3 years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake w/ her sister. And though he grows to cherish his wife & the family they have, he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. His sense of missing something leads him sometimes to the politics of his friends & intermittently to the teachings of a charismatic religious guide. But every evening, w/o fail, Mevlut still wanders the streets of Istanbul, selling boza & wondering at the "strangeness" in his mind, the sensation that makes him feel different from everyone else, until fortune conspires once more to let him understand at last what it is he has always yearned for. Told from different perspectives by a host of beguiling characters, "A Strangeness in My Mind" is a modern epic of coming of age in a great city, a brilliant tableau of life among the newcomers who have changed the face of Istanbul over the past 50 years. Here is a MESMERIZING story of human longing, sure to take its place among Pamuk's finest achievements. * HIGH PRAISE FOR "A STRANGENESS IN MY MIND" : "Delightful. Tremendous. Written w/ virtuosic craft, intellectual richness, emotional subtlety, & a feeling of freedom." -Martin Riker, NYTBR "Pamuk does for Istanbul something like James Joyce did for Dublin. He captures not just the look & feel of the city, but its culture, its beliefs & traditions, its people & their values." -Adam Kirsch, Washington Post * ABOUT ORHAN PAMUK: ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel "My Name Is Red" won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. "PAMUK has made his native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin, or Proust's Paris--a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own." -from the Nobel Presentation Speech. * HIGH PRAISE FOR ORPAN PAMUK: "Essential reading for our times: In Turkey, Pamuk is the equivalent of a rock star, guru, diagnostic specialist, & potential pundit. The Turkish public reads his novels as if taking its own pulse. -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR. "Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence & arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." -John Updike, The New Yorker. "Pamuk's is an astonishing achievement." -TLS (London) * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this excellent book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal additional fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL. Codice articolo 010161
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