![]() ![]() ![]() Although he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have together, Mevlut stumbles toward middle age as everyone around him seems to be reaping the benefits of a rapidly modernizing Turkey. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he has seen just once, only to elope by mistake with her sister. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems to be on Mevlut’s side. From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a modern epic novel that tells the coming of age story of a street vendor in Istanbul and the love of his life.Īrriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karataş is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. ![]()
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