I am a tree

Mevlut's Secondary School Years

Orhan Pamuk for Everyone

" In this book, I tried to choose the most easily understandable and powerful pages from the pages I have written so far."

Childhood and school stories and pages from history
Orhan While taking these pieces from his other books into the book, Pamuk touched the texts, changed his old writings, added sentences, paragraphs, and added titles. This selection, made from the most beautiful pages of Pamuk's forty-year writing life, will attract the attention of both his new and young readers and the author's old followers.

"At the heart of the book, there are two subjects that I like to daydream about: The mysterious face of history and the memories of my childhood and student years. I always returned to these two sources in my novels and prose. Each time, I felt that the two subjects were intertwined in my mind. So : The childish side of history and the historical side of childhood."

A never published story
In I Am a Tree, Pamuk describes an executioner of the Ottoman period, It tells about the sultan's jealousy, makes a tree and a picture talk, and tells the story of his own childhood, youth and school memories. With the story of the secondary school years of Mevlut Karataş, the hero of Pamuk's new novel, A Strangeness in My Mind...

Dogan Kardes-Selected Pieces

A chapter from the book...


Thin Cover:

Number of Pages: 128

Printing Year: 2013


e-Book:

Number of Pages: 117

Print Year: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Number of Pages: 128

First Printing Year: 2013

Language: Turkish