Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rèuya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celãal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celãal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celãal's identity, wearing his clothes, answe...more

In ISTANBUL, Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has written a mesmerizing blend of memoir and ode, a book that is simultaneously about Pamuk's adolescence in Istanbul and about the nature of the city itself. Pamuk paints Istanbul as a lovely but melancholic world, a place always yearning to be something other than it is, haunted by its glorious...more

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists...more

When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once active in the field but now anchored to a London desk, to undertake the crucial rescue. But soon, Samson is confronted with evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues. And to find out who it is, he must sift through layers of lies and foll...more