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Nights of Plague, with Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk

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Survival Instincts and Detective Narratives

This chapter examines the tensions between maternal instincts and self-survival during crises, using a plague narrative from Mingaria as a backdrop. It connects historical figures like Sultan Abdul Hamid with literary themes from detective fiction, highlighting deductive reasoning in both detective work and epidemiology.

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