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Hands up who wants to read a 600-page novel about the plague. No one?
Think again, because the latest novel from Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s Nobel Prize-winning author, may just be the best thing you read this year.
To say that , set on the fictitious Ottoman island of Mingheria in 1901, makes COVID seem like a picnic is not to make light of the recent pandemic. It is merely a reminder that the agonies of the far more fatal
