![]() ![]() Now, in the last 13 years, all that changed. He says all those buildings were a figment of his imagination. Pamuk himself drew the picture many years ago he once wanted to be an artist, and studied architecture. ![]() In the middle of it, a young man stands atop a domed building, looking down on the sprawl below. On the cover of the book, underneath its paper jacket, is a picture of a city filled with intricately drawn skyscrapers. ![]() His latest novel, A Strangeness in My Mind, is the story of a street peddler, one of the millions who began immigrating to Istanbul in the 1950s from small villages in the country. But he is a creature of the affluent corners of the city where he grew up and now lives, and he has written many times about the lives of Istanbul's secular upper class. Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk loves Istanbul. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Strangeness in My Mind Author Orhan Pamuk ![]()
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