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The bestselling murder mystery from Orhan Pamuk, winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature. ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW
NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Award 'Wonderful' The
Spectator 'Magnificent' Observer 'Unforgettable' Guardian My Name
is Red is an unforgettable murder mystery, set amid the splendour
of sixteenth century Istanbul, from the Nobel prizewinning author
In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a
celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the
best artists of the day - in the European manner. At a time of
violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition.
Even the illustrious circle of artists are not allowed to know for
whom they are working. But when one of the miniaturists is
murdered, their Master has to seek outside help. Did the dead
painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or
religious terror? With the Sultan demanding an answer within three
days, perhaps the clue lies somewhere in the half-finished pictures
. . . Orhan Pamuk is one of the world's leading contemporary
novelists and in My Name is Red, he fashioned an unforgettable tale
of suspense, and an artful meditation on love and deception.
'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was
invented.' Daily Telegraph 'Pamuk is the real thing.' Observer 'One
of the world's finest living writers.' Independent 'Essential
reading for our times.' Margaret Atwood 'Everyone should read
Pamuk.' New Statesman An epic and playful mystery of passion, fear,
scandal and murder, from one of history's master storytellers.
1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal
ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria, the
twenty-ninth state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries
Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor
husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. Not all of them
will survive the weeks ahead. There are rumours of plague - rumours
some in power will try to suppress. But plague is not the only
killer. Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe, and the future of
a fragile empire is at stake. 'A wry meditation on nationalism and
identity, on history and myth, on science and superstition,
delivered with Orhan Pamuk's trademark storytelling flair.'
Financial Times 'A tale of spies, conspiracy and murder . . . full
of vivid characters.' Independent
The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by the same name), a transcript of the author and filmmaker in conversation, and captivating colour stills, it is an essential volume for understanding Pamuk's work.
Drawing on the themes from Pamuk's best-selling books, The Museum of Innocence, Istanbul and The Black Book, this book is both an accompaniment to the author's previous publications and a wonderfully revelatory exploration of Orhan Pamuk's key ideas about art, love, and memory.
A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows
Istanbul in all its complex beauty. ** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE
NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature 'An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of
storytelling. . . a very tender evocation of Istanbul's moment of
dolce vita.' - The Guardian 'Intimate and nuanced.. A classic,
spacious love story.' - Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books
Kamal lives a life of cosmopolitan glamour, exploring the
restaurants and boutiques of Istanbul with his friends and fiance.
In the newly modern city, they pride themselves on their liberal
attitudes and Western style. A chance encounter with Fusun, a
working-class shop-girl, begins a long, obsessive love affair, one
that draws him deep into Istanbul's complex history, and uncovers
the forces of class and gender that still control its inhabitants'
lives.
A mesmerizing love story with a cast of beguiling characters, from
the Nobel prizewinning author Orhan Pamuk ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF
PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature 'A magnificent novel.' Wall Street Journal 'Powerful
and moving.' TLS 'Books of the Year' 'Prepare to fall in love' Mail
on Sunday 'As head-exploding as War and Peace, and more comforting'
Elif Batuman As a child, Mevlut always felt like he was missing
out. When he moves to Istanbul - 'the centre of the world' - he is
immediately enthralled. He wanders through its alleys for forty
years, working as a street vendor and gaining a unique perspective
of a radically changing city. Mevlut watches his friends and
relatives settle down and make their fortunes, while he stumbles
toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. He never
manages to shake the 'strangeness in his mind', until at last
fortune conspires to let him understand what it is he yearns for .
. .
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Engaging, brilliant'
Guardian 'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times 'Every
novelist will want to read this' Daily Telegraph What happens
within us when we read a novel? And how does a writer create its
unique effects? In this thoughtful and deeply personal book, Orhan
Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and reader, revealing
their intimate connections. How is it that novels conjure
landscapes so vivid they can make the here-and-now fade away, and
characters so complex we feel we know them beyond the page? With
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust as companions,
Pamuk considers the 'sweet illusion' of the fictional world, and
the hold it exerts upon us. Anyone who has known the pleasure of
becoming immersed in a novel will enjoy, and learn from, this
perceptive and enchanting book.
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov,
and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating
work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of
identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th
century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is
taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls into
the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--"master"--a man who is his
exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his
master in Western science and technology, from medicine to
pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive
are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each
other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange
identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and
terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricately
patterned triumph of the imagination. Translated from the Turkish
by Victoria Holbrook.
'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was
invented.' Daily Telegraph 'Pamuk is the real thing.' Observer 'One
of the world's finest living writers.' Independent 'Essential
reading for our times.' Margaret Atwood 'Everyone should read
Pamuk.' New Statesman Plague is not the only killer -- an
historical epic of murder and mystery, myth-making and
nation-building, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal
ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald
built of pink stone'. The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire.
The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan,
her doctor husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. Each of
them holds a separate mission. Not all of them will survive the
weeks ahead. Because Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe. There
are rumours of plague - rumours some in power will try to suppress.
But plague is not the only killer. Soon, the eyes of the world will
turn to this ancient island, where the future of a fragile empire
is at stake, in an epic and playful mystery of passion, fear,
scandal and murder, from one of history's master storytellers.
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After twelve years in political exile in Germany, a poet Ka returns
to Istanbul for his mother's funeral, and takes a commission to
report on the municipal elections in Kars near the Russian border.
There he discovers a dangerous atmosphere, with tensions running
high between the political Islamists and the 'enlightened,
pro-Western' Turkish military. The second half of the novel takes
place over a three-day period. Following the set-piece military
coup, Pamuk brilliantly explores such themes as politics, love,
ethics, religion and poetry, as we gradually discover the real
truth concerning the poet and the snow covered old-world city of
Kars.
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Everyone should read
Pamuk' The New Statesman 'You could become obsessed with this
novel' Guardian Osman is a young engineering student when he finds
a mysterious and dangerous book that promises him a new and
exciting life. He abandons his studies, turns his back on home and
family, falls in love and embarks on restless bus rides through a
nocturnal landscape of travellers' cafes and apocalyptic bus
wrecks, all in pursuit of this elusive vision. But will he, or the
reader, ever understand the nature of this strange obsession?
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of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Dazzling . . . Turns the
detective novel on its head.' Independent on Sunday 'Pamuk's
masterpiece' Times Literary Supplement Galip's wife has
disappeared. Could she have left him for Celal, a popular newspaper
columnist? But Celal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip
investigates, he gradually assumes the enviable Celal's identity,
wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his
columns. But despite pursuing every clue the nature of the mystery
keeps changing, and Galip never feels himself to be any closer to
finding his beloved Ruya. When he receives a death threat, he
begins to fear the worst. . .
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'One of the greatest and
most prophetic of political novelists.' Guardian Books of the Year
'Inspired and impassioned' New York Times 'Powerful, assured and
engaging.' Irish Times A family gathers in the shadow of a
revolution, until an outsider brings the action to their door As
the political tension from Turkey's tumultuous struggle for
modernity builds, an old widow Fatma waits with her faithful
servant Recep for her grandchildren to descend for their annual
visit. Faruk, a failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister,
Nilgun; and Metin, a high school student who lives the fast life of
the nouveaux riches while dreaming of escape. The arrival of
Recep's nephew Hassan, who has recently fallen in with right-wing
extremists, draws the family into the growing political cataclysm.
As the country wavers towards tragedy, the family are forced to
confront their past and decide where they stand.
A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's
best loved literary magazines Since The Paris Review was founded in
1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest
writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works
of finely-crafted literature. From Faulkner's determination that a
great novel takes 'ninety-nine percent talent . . . ninety-nine
percent discipline . . . ninety-nine percent work', to Gabriel
Marquez's observation that 'in the first paragraph you solve most
of the problems with your book', The Paris Review has elicited
revelatory and revealing thoughts from our most accomplished
novelists, poets and playwrights. With an introduction by Orhan
Pamuk, this volume brings together another rich, varied crop of
literary voices, comprising: Graham Greene, James Thurber, William
Faulkner, Robert Lowell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, John
Gardner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, James Baldwin,
William Gaddis, Harold Bloom, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Peter
Carey and Stephen King. 'A colossal literary event' as Gary
Shteyngart put it, The Paris Review Interviews vol. 2 is a treasury
of wisdom from the world's literary masters.
Shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize for best work of literary fiction translated into English.
On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well-digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating metre by metre, the two will develop a father/son bond that neither has known before. But in the nearby town, where they spend their evenings, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre group, catches his eye, and she seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. But in his distraction a horrible accident occurs, and he will spend his life unaware of the outcome, or who the Red-Haired Woman was, until many years later.
Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer. **
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'A declaration of love.'
Sunday Times 'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the
slightest acquaintance with this fabled bridge between east and
west.' The Economist 'An irresistibly seductive book' Jan Morris,
Guardian In a surprising and original blend of personal memoir and
cultural history, Turkey's most celebrated novelist, Orhan Pamuk,
explores his home of more than fifty years. What begins as a
portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a shimmering
evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's
greatest cities. Beginning in the family apartment building where
he was born, and still lives, Pamuk uses his family secrets to show
how they were typical of their time and place. He then guides us
through Istanbul's monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated
Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, and introduces us to
the city's writers, artists and murderers. Like Joyce's Dublin and
Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of
place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Pamuk is taking the world
we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive' New York Times
'Wonderfully readable, a joy to dip into.' Joseph O'Connor, Irish
Sunday Independent From the internationally bestselling writer
Orhan Pamuk, a personal selection from twenty-five years of
writing, including his Nobel Prize speech and an original short
story. Reflections on his successful struggle to quit smoking, his
anxiety at testifying in court, his first trip to Europe and his
father's death are accompanied by Pamuk's own black and white
drawings. By turns witty, moving, playful and provocative, Other
Colours glows with the energy of a master at work.
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's
great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the
acclaimed novels "Snow and "My Name Is Red.
Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with
portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing,
and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Orhan Pamuk invents an
ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his
imagination. He begins with his childhood among the eccentric
extended Pamuk family in the dusty, carpeted, and hermetically
sealed apartment building they shared. In this place came his first
intimations of the melancholy awareness that binds all residents of
his city together: that of living in the seat of ruined imperial
glories, in a country trying to become "modern" at the dizzying
crossroads of East and West. This elegiac communal spirit overhangs
Pamuk's reflections as he introduces the writers and painters
(among the latter, most particularly the German Antoine-Ignace
Melling) through whose eyes he came to see Istanbul. Against a
background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly
backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he
presents the interplay of his budding sense of place with that of
his predecessors. And he charts the evolution of a rich, sometimes
macabre, imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge
from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to
serve the famous writer he was to become. It was, and remains, a
life fed by the changing microcosm of the apartment building and,
even more, the beckoning kaleidoscope beyond its walls.
As much a portrait of the artist as a young manas it is an oneiric
Joycean map of the city, "Istanbul is a masterful evocation of its
subject through the idiosyncrasies of direct experience as much as
the power of myth--the dazzling book Pamuk was born to write.
The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to
create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants
them to illuminate it in the European style. Because figurative art
is deemed by many to be an affront to Islam, the project must be
kept secret. Panic and scandal erupt when one of the chosen
miniaturists disappears, along with a crucial page of the
manuscript. The surviving artists - bitter rivals variously
motivated by pride, greed, jealousy, faith and love - are all under
suspicion of murder, and the only clue to the mystery lies in the
half-finished illustrations themselves. My Name is Red reveals the
clash between two views of artistic meaning and the chasm between
two world civilizations. In this special edition the author
includes a chronology of Islamic and Western art history to provide
valuable context for his story, and has contributed a fascinating
introduction throwing light on his methods, his aims and his
inspiration
Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between
secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that
Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled
poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of
Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides
among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka
is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently
divorced.
Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself
pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a charismatic
terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A
theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be
the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and
humming with cerebral suspense, "Snow is of immense relevance to
our present moment.
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