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Pamuk, Orhan (Translated by Ekin Oklap) : A Strangeness In My Mind

Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY, 2015

ISBN 0307700291

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 605 pages. The author's eighth novel to be translated into English. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The book is magnificently realized, not just designed, by Chip Kidd: Wraparound pictorial hard boards, a drawing by Orhan Pamuk himself on the DJ, and four round die-cuts on the latter to alert you to the stunning boards underneath. Presents Orhan Pamuk's "Kafamda bir tuhaflik" in a felicitous English translation. A complex psychological drama and a tremendous concatenation of voices and places and politics and culture, gathered around a melancholy hero. It is beautifully written, with dazzling virtuosity, intellectual riches, emotional subtlety, and "a feeling of freedom that comes from a narrative that finds its most meaningful moments in the side streets of storytelling. Wrestles with the complexity of an ever-changing city. For Pamuk, the vision of life as a complex web of knowable things provides a terrifically interesting way to write a novel" (The New York Times). "He has enlarged the roots of the contemporary novel through his links to both Western and Eastern culture. This means that he has stolen the novel, one can say, from us Westerners, and has transformed it into something different from what we have ever seen before" (Horace Engdahl, Nobel Prize Committee). An absolute "must-have" title for Orhan Pamuk collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (two days after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Oct 22 2015 Orhan Pamuk". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Pamuk's signature on this copy is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Program of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and post-publication dated copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003 for "My Name Is Red". Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, the first Turkish writer to be so deservedly honored. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ORHAN PAMUK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307700291.

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