'Mr. Pamuk remains an estimable writer. One of his great gifts is for blending what is clearly a large amount of research, on many topics, into alert, humane, nonwonky prose. (...) Yet “A Strangeness in My Mind” lacks the visceral and cerebral impact of Mr. Pamuk’s best novels, notably “Snow” and “My Name Is Red” (2001). For all its melancholy, it verges on being cute.' - The New York Times


'Orhan Pamuk is becoming that rare author who writes his best books after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. (...) Prepare to fall in love with this everyman, this vendor of street-level history whose cry echoes down the years: “Boo-zaa.”' - The Independent


'This sprawling story of a street vendor’s romance is above all a love letter to the Turkish city in all its faded, messy, dusty glory.' - The Guardian