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In Nobel prize winner Pamuk's (Istanbul) second novel, published in Turkey in 1983 and translated into English in 2012, 90-year-old widow Fatma lives in a crumbling house in a resort town north of Istanbul. Her caretaker is the dwarf Recep, her husband's bastard son. Fatma and Recep squabble constantly but clearly cannot live without each other. Fatma harbors a decades-long resentment of her husband, who was exiled to the town and spent the rest of his life working on an encyclopedia of eve...Log In or Sign Up to Read More