Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1952. The author of books including My Name Is Red and The Museum of Innocence, he is Turkey’s bestselling writer. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.
I threw a broken toy into a garden that I could not see because I was not tall enough to see through the window frame. I heard someone say “ah” but never learned what happened.
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