At a wedding, Mevlut comes face to face with one of the sisters of the bride and falls in love right away. Much later in the book, we see him growing into the man we have already met at the beginning, radiating the persuasive power both of a human being with a unique disposition and dilemmas and a character in a novel that is using him to generate a life and time-scheme and house of meanings of its own.Īt the heart of the plot is a fascinating, endlessly ramifying incident that reveals a great deal about the nature of love, imagination and time (perhaps the three most important words in Pamuk’s fiction). So, although A Strangeness In My Mind tracks Mevlut’s life in Istanbul-and Istanbul’s life in Mevlut-from the time he arrives in the city as a schoolboy, all the way into his early 50s, the story begins in medias res, with a couple of episodes from his youth and middle age.
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