Orhan Pamuk
Author
Publisher
Азбука-Аттикус_ Иностранка
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Орхан Памук – самый известный турецкий писатель, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. Его новая книга «Чумные ночи» — это историко-детективный роман, пронизанный атмосферой восточной сказки_ это роман, сочетающий в себе самые противоречивые...
2) Snow
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For fourteen years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. In words and pictures, he writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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 without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before, not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend...