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Pamuk, Orhan; Oklap, Ekin (Translator) : A Strangeness in My Mind

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2015

Signed by the author in black pen on a front flyleaf: "Orhan Pamuk." Gilt sticker on front panel denotes this as a "Signed First Edition" [First American Edition]. Original multicolored pictorial paper-covered boards in a white pictorial paper dust jacket. Dust jacket protected by a paper-backed mylar sleeve. Part of the original dust jacket design includes four cut-out circles that reveal the illustration on the covers. A wrap-around illustration of a city and other scenery are on front, back, and spine of book. Red and blue lettering on dust jacket spine. 6 1/2" x 9 1/4." 599 pages, complete. Two black-and-white illustrations, complete. Index of Characters in the back. Pages are pristine and intact except for a small faint mark in the Index and a light dampstain running the width of the fore-edge of the text block at the bottom. The dampstain only affects a small part of the side margins. Covers are pristine and intact except for slight wear to corners and edges. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is pristine and intact except for slight wrinkling at head of spine and parts of the top edge. Dust jacket not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. The author's ninth novel. A Strangeness in My Mind is about the fictional character of Mevlut Karatas, who moves from a small Anatolian village to the bustling metropolis of Istanbul, Turkey. There, he tries to make a living by selling the Turkish drink, boza, and falls in love with a young womanl. In the passing years, financial success still eludes Karatas, and he is troubled by the eponymous "strangeness" in his mind, a "sensation that makes him feel different from everyone else." This novel is a family epic as well as a rumination upon the significant, and sometimes painful, changes Istanbul underwent from 1969-2012. Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and intellectual. His literary works often address the tensions between Eastern and Western cultures. Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize for discovering "new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures" as seen in his work. Translated from the original Turkish by Ekin Oklap.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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