The Art of Writing: Orhan Pamuk
GETTY CENTER
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk discusses his new book, A Strangeness in My Mind. The novel follows Mevlut Karataș, a boy who leaves his village for Istanbul to seek his fortune. He sells boza (a traditional Turkish beverage) on the streets from 1969 to 2012. Throughout these decades, he witnesses the various transformations that the people, the city, and the nation undergo.