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I love Orhan Pamuk‘s work so this was an auto-buy for me, but I can‘t finish it. The long sections of (partly made up) history feel remote and the characters wooden. It‘s set on a fictional island, Mingheria, so has elements of fantasy that I found hard to connect to and lacks the sense of place usually strong in Pamuk‘s work. And I don‘t want to read about plagues & quarantines. I like the playful tone but It‘s 680 pages so I had to make a call.