A Strangeness in my Mind

Resumen del libro

Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karata has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve, he comes to Istanbul--"the center of the world"--and is immediately enthralled both by the city being demolished and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a traditional Turkish drink) on the street, and hoping to become rich, like other villagers who have settled the desolate hills outside the booming metropolis. But chance seems to conspire against him. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake with her sister. And though he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have, his relations all make their fortunes while his own years are spent in a series of jobs leading nowhere; he is sometimes attracted to the politics of his friends and intermittently to the lodge of a religious guide. But every evening, without fail, he still wanders the streets of Istanbul, selling boza and wondering at the "strangeness" in his mind, the sensation that makes him feel different from everyone else, until fortune conspires once more to let him understand at last what it is he has always yearned for.
Told from the perspectives of many beguiling characters, "A Strangeness in My Mind" is a modern epic of coming of age in a great city, and a mesmerizing narrative sure to take its place among Pamuk's finest achievements."

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Orhan Pamuk x{0026}lt;/B nació en Estambul, Turquía, en 1952. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2006, realizó estudios de arquitectura y periodismo, y ha pasado largas temporadas en Estados Unidos, en las universidades de Iowa y Columbia.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Es autor de las novelas x{0026}lt;I Cevdet Bey e hijosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La casa del silenciox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El castillo blancox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El libro negrox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La vida nuevax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Me llamo Rojox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Nievex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El museo de la inocenciax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Una sensación extraña, La mujer del pelo rojo x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I Las noches de la peste,x{0026}lt;/I así como de los volúmenes de no ficción x{0026}lt;I Estambul. Ciudad y recuerdos, La maleta de mi padrex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El novelista ingenuo y sentimentalx{0026}lt;/I , y de la colección de ensayos x{0026}lt;I Otros coloresx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Su éxito mundial se desencadenó a partir de los elogios que John Updike dedicó a la novela x{0026}lt;I El castillo blancox{0026}lt;/I . Desde entonces ha obtenido numerosos reconocimientos internacionales: el premio al Mejor Libro Extranjero en Francia, el Grinzane Cavour en Italia y el premio internacional IMPAC de Irlanda, los tres por x{0026}lt;I Me llamo Rojox{0026}lt;/I . En 2005 recibió el Premio de la Paz de los libreros alemanes. Con la publicación de x{0026}lt;I Nievex{0026}lt;/I , novela por la que en 2006 fue galardonado con el Prix Médicis Étranger, Orhan Pamuk pasó a ser objetivo predilecto de los ataques de la prensa nacionalista turca. Tras la obtención del Nobel de Literatura en 2006, su proyección internacional se consolidó definitivamente, y sus libros han sido traducidos a más de cuarenta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P