A Strangeness in My Mind

The main character is Mevlut, who originates from central Anatolia and arrives as a 12-year-old boy; the course of the novel tracks his adolescence and adulthood.[4] Elena Seymenliyska of The Daily Telegraph described the book as "a family saga that is as much an elegy to Istanbul as to its generations of adopted residents."[5] Publishers Weekly stated that "what really stands out is Pamuk's treatment of Istanbul's evolution into a noisy, corrupt, and modernized city."[6] According to Garner the author was able to write "alert, humane, nonwonky prose" as a result of researching varied topics.[5] Dwight Garner wrote that the narrators "contradict one another as if they were talking heads in an early Spike Lee movie.
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