![]() ![]() Let me note, also, that in 2003, the writer published a mostly autographical account of his life, growing up in the city: Istanbul: Memories and a City, wherein he stated that he was living in the same building where he had been raised as a child. ![]() Pamuk’s first novel since that work, A Strangeness in My Mind, has just been translated into English and, like the earlier work (and its tangential spin-off, the author’s actual Museum of Innocence, in Istanbul, an elegant treat in and of itself), the new novel continues the author’s on-going obsession with the city where he was born and raised. As I have written many times, The Museum of Innocence (2008) is the most significant novel I have read during the past decade. To my mind, there is no finer novelist living today than Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk, recipient of the Novel Prize in Literature in 2006. ![]()
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