![]() ![]() He does not fit in, the proverbial hayseed come to town. ![]() Wishing to hope without a hope, some fearsĪnd, more than all, a strangeness in the mind, ![]() I was disturbed at times by prudent thoughts, He has many jobs but gets no richer.Ī Strangeness in My Mind takes its title from Wordsworth’s “The Prelude.” After a poor school career and a few years in the army, he elopes with Rahiya, the sister of the woman to whom he had been writing love letters during the three years he was in the army. He joins his father in Istanbul in an effort to seek his fortune by selling boza, a sweet and sour Turkish drink, on the street. “This is the story of the life and daydreams of Mevlut Karataş, a seller of boza and yogurt.” Thus begins A Strangeness in My Mind, the story of a 12-year old boy who moved from central Turkey to Istanbul and the concurrent story of that city from 1969 to 2012. ![]()
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