7/8/2023 0 Comments A strangeness in my mind![]() ![]() ![]() So when Pamuk, who has since won a most deserved Nobel Prize for Literature, releases a new novel I am always eager to read it. It was not comforting, but it helped frame my understanding of that conflict that 9/11 brought to our doorsteps. ![]() Unable to bear watching the images on constant repeat on the news, I tuned out the news and retreated to 1591 where the same forces of Islamic fundamentalist tradition waged violent resistance to creeping Westernization. While the book’s events took place hundreds of years ago, the conflict between tradition and modernity was the same conflict that brought us to that awful day. It was early September, 2001 and My Name is Red had just been released in the U.S. I was about half to two-thirds of the way through it on September 11th. If ever there were a book for its time, it was that one. I will never forget my first introduction to Orhan Pamuk. ![]()
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