Wednesday, March 20, 2019

ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 13


BY ORHAN PAMUK


In the hours before I was born, my mother had been avidly following a local story: 

Two days earlier, the caretakers and “heroic” residents of the Konya Student Center had seen a man in a terrifying mask trying to enter a house in Langa through the bathroom window; 

they’d chased him through the streets to a lumberyard, where, after cursing the police, the hardened criminal had committed suicide; 

a seller of dry goods identified the corpse as a gangster who the year before had entered his shop in broad daylight and robbed him at gunpoint.

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