Galip roams Istanbul in search of his missing wife. “An inventive and...exuberant modern national epic” (London Sunday Times); “one of the world’s finest writers” (New Statesman). Translated by Güneli Gün.
The reader sits down to dinner with Chantal, who is waiting for her lover, Jean-Marc, in a seaside hotel. While waiting to be served, she overhears two waitresses discuss the unexplained disappearance of a family man. This blatant foreshadowing posits the central question of Identity: what we think we know about our intimates is predicated on p...more
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 deliv...more
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
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