A mesmerizing love story with a cast of beguiling characters, from the Nobel prizewinning author Orhan Pamuk** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A magnificent novel.' Wall Street Journal'Powerful and moving.' TLS 'Books of the Year''Prepare to fall in love' Mail on Sunday'As head-exploding as War and Peace, and more comforting' Elif Batuman As a child, Mevlut always felt like he was missing out. When he moves to Istanbul – 'the centre of the world' – he is immediately enthralled. He wanders through its alleys for forty years, working as a street vendor and gaining a unique perspective of a radically changing city. Mevlut watches his friends and relatives settle down and make their fortunes, while he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. He never manages to shake the 'strangeness in his mind', until at last fortune conspires to let him understand what it is he yearns for . . .
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