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This is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. 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. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is
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Detaljer om materialet
Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Klassemærke
83
Bidragsydere
Originaltitel
Kafamda bir tuhaflik
ISBN
9780307700292
Udgave
1. American edition
Omfang
xiii, 599 sider
Forlag
Alfred A. Knopf
Målgruppe
voksenmaterialer
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Orhan Pamuk
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