Dalam buku ini, Pamuk memberi makna lain terhadap kenangan dan kesedihan seorang individu: sebagai jejak sejarah yang menghubungkan masa lalu dengan masa depan sebuah kota, bahkan sebuah peradaban. Namun, buku ini bukan hanya cerita tentang sebuah kota nun jauh di sana, melainkan sebuah buku indah yang mengisahkan banyak hal. Sebagai seorang novelis terkemuka, Pamuk secara cemerlang mampu membu…
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues ev…
“Sebuah novel yang amat relevan dengan situasi masa kini.”—The Times Salju mulai turun ketika seorang wartawan dan penyair bernama Ka tiba di Kars, sebuah kota kecil di perbatasan Turki. Diawali keinginannya untuk menyelidiki kasus bunuh diri yang semakin mewabah di kalangan wanita muda kota itu, juga hasrat untuk menemukan cinta masa lalunya, tanpa sadar Ka terseret di dalam gejolak…
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 …
Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey's premier novelists and My Name Is Red, when published in the original Turkish in 1998, became the fastest-selling book in Turkish history. It is high time then that a translation to English was made, and this publication will be widely welcomed by Pamuk's growing legion of English-speaking admirers.
In the late 16th century, during the final years of the…
In his native Turkey, author Orhan Pamuk's novel The New Life is a huge hit. Now English-language readers have an opportunity to sample this unusual book for themselves. The New Life begins with the declaration that 'I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.' That book leads the narrator, a young man named Osman, on a wild journey in the company of Janan, a mysterious y…
The first novel to appear in English by Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk, originally published in 1990. A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates in Italy and put up for auction at an Istanbul slave market. He is bought by a Turkish savant eager to learn about Western intellectual advances, and their relationship becomes more complex than master and slave as they trade confidences and …