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pp. 433, “Pamuk? criticism, autobiographical writing and meditations are presented alongside interviews he has given and selections from his private notebooks. He engages the work of other novelists, including Sterne and Dostoyevsky, Salman Rushdie and Patricia Highsmith, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We learn not just how he writes but how he lives as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking and describes his relationship with his daughter. Ordinary events?pplying for a passport, the death of a relative?nspire extraordinary flights of association as the novelist reflects on everything from the child? state of being to divergent attitudes towards art in the East and West.”