![]() ![]() But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. 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. In the four decades between 19, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. ![]() It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. ![]()
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