Turkey’s Nobel laureate explains how he set out to write an epic of Istanbul in his latest novel,A Strangeness in My Mind – and why he’s confident the novel will survive in the age of box sets
The development of the novel is inextricably connected with the growth of contemporary cities, said Turkish Nobel laureate at a Guardian Live event to discuss his latest novel A Strangeness in My Mind.
Cities give rise to novels, or novels in turn mythologise and further the growth of cities,he said, explaining why his own work returns again and again to Istanbul, and the city of his birth,as both the primary location of, and inspiration for, and his fiction. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com