The street is cobblestone, the door of the building ornate. A woman approaches from the left, her head covered in a scarf. Opposite him, three men squat in a doorway. Hanging from the ends of the stick are two containers filled with his product - a traditional, mildly alcoholic drink served with cinnamon and chickpeas. The slight man faces away from the camera, a long stick balanced across his shoulders. On the very last page of A Strangeness in My Mind, the latest novel by Columbia humanities professor and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, there is a photograph of a traditional Turkish boza seller.
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