Pamuk, Orhan THE BLACK BOOK US SC ARC NF

Release Date: May 30, 2009

From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red (a sumptuous thriller-John Updike; chockful of sublimity and sin-New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings-for love, art, power, and God-set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order.Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity-a frozen sea these many years-leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border and the epicenter of the suicides.No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ot

This work provides extensive critical analysis of Orhan Pamuk's work. The contributors establish Pamuk as a universal author whose contributions to the genre of novel have not only enriched our understanding of modern Turkish literature, but have generated discussions on national identity. Turkish author Orhan Pamuk is the winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. His novels have been translated into several languages. However lack of extensive critical analysis about much of Pamuk's work renders Nilgun Anadolu-Okur's edited volume a significant contribution to the development of research and scholarship in comparative literature. Using close textual analysis, the contributors to this international volume of critical essays cover the full range of Pamuk's fictional output, including an overview of his themes, plots and characters. The editor's introduction reveals a centered analysis of the author's perspective on historical consciousness, as it recaps the impact of past socio-political events upon his narration of contemporary stories. Ultimately this collection seeks to establish Orhan Pamuk as a universal author whose contributions to the genre of novel have not only enriched our understanding of modern Turkish literature but generated a variety of stimulating discussions around Orhan Pamuk's quest for identity and his place within world literature.

Release Date: July 11, 2006

Free Worldwide Delivery : Orhan Pamuk Boxed Set : Paperback : Faber and Faber : 9780571236923 : 0571236928 : 14 Dec 2006

From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about reading and writing novels.  In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naïve” writers—those who write spontaneously—and “sentimental” writers—those who are reflective and aware—Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and the beloved novels of his youth to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.

Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores Pamuk's multifaceted approach to ordinary Turkish life. The contributors of this volume come from an array of international perspectives that place the reading of Pamuk into dynamic arenas of new interpretation and reflection. The themes of existentialism and politics are examined in illuminating essays through connections to nationalism, religion/secularity, traditional/modern, exile/home, and comparative readings of writers as Mohsin Hamid, Naguib Mahfouz, Italo Svevo, and Amitav Ghosh. This is an indispensable collection for understanding Pamuk, global literature, and crucial issues in today's world.

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Black Book : Paperback : Faber and Faber : 9780571225255 : 057122525X : 03 Aug 2006 : Tells the story of Galip, an Istanbul lawyer whose wife has vanished. Playing the part of private investigator, he soon finds himself descending deeper and deeper into an extraordinary mystery.

Free Worldwide Delivery : The White Castle : Paperback : Vintage Books USA : 9780375701610 : 0375701613 : 31 Mar 1998 : Orhan Pamuk proffers a dazzling work of historical and philosophical fiction, set amid the scholarship and savagery of 17th-century Constantinople. When a young Italian scholar is taken prisoner, he becomes the slave and tutor of a Turkish scholar who is his exact double. THE WHITE CASTLE is a triumph of the imagination, as colorful and intricately patterned as a Turkish prayer rug.

Award-winning photojournalist Webb presents his vision of the Turkish city of Istanbul in the form of some 200 full-color photographs. His photographic work in the city has been governed in no small part by his sense of Istanbul as a border city between Asia and Europe, between Islam and secularism, and between ancient and modern. Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate Pamuk contributes an essay on the culture of Istanbul and hÜzÜn (or melancholy). Distributed in the US by Distributed Art Publishers. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)