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My Father´s Suitcase – by Orhan PAMUK

Two years before my father died, he gave me a small suitcase filled with his manuscripts and notebooks. Assuming his usual jocular, mocking air, he told me that he wanted me to read them after he was gone, by which he meant after his death.

Read more at THE NEW YORKER * Life & Letters * Published December 25, 2006