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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)

Release Date: October 20, 2009

Bloomsbury is proud to be the global publisher of In Darkness, a stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. “Shorty” is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred years of history. It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence, and whose own end came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they share . . . or is it hope?Raw, harrowing, and peopled with vibrant characters, In Darkness is an extraordinary book about the cruelties of man and nature, and the valiant, ongoing struggle

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Private investigator Jack Carlson is traveling to the small, remote upstate city of Winship to look into a rash of suspicious insurance claims. Like the farmer who accidentally blew himself up in a garnet mine, and the teenager who died in a peculiar car crash.The Winship police and Medical Examiner appear cooperative but offer no real help. Local insurance agent Joe Bellman is evasive and fearful.And shortly after meeting Jack, both Bellman and his secretary Chris Innes turn up dead, an apparent case of murder-suicide. Jack isn't buying any of it.As he pokes behind the Norman Rockwell exterior of Winship, he finds a place smoldering with crime, corruption and bizarre religious fervor. He becomes involved with a club dancer named Kelly, who may know some of the secrets but who may also be a mortal threat to Jack.The town of Winship is itself part of the puzzle, a place where unseen choirs can be heard, where the ground appears to glow, creating confusion and mental disorder in anyone nearby, where gangs of yo

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.

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Magical realism meets contemporary fantasy in this extraordinary tale by an extraordinary talent... "Stewart's prose is vivid and precise...startling and moving". -- Washington Post Book World "Mockingbird is wise, witty, and wonderful". -- Karen Joy Fowler, author of Sarah Canary Sean Stewart's distinctive prose has been as "emotionally intense" by the New York Times. Now in Mockingbird, he combines haunting simplicity with eloquence in a tale of two sisters bound by their mother's gift -- a legacy of magic... When Toni Beauchamp's mother died, she and her sister Candy thought it meant a new beginning, a life free of magic. But Elena Beauchamp had one last gift for her daughter -- a sip from the Mockingbird Cordial. And the moment Toni held the drink to her lips, her life would never be the same... "An Alternate-history Earth where magic has returned to claim its rightful place...tightly focused, emotionally intense". -- New York Times "High passion, tragic experience, and pure human delight". -- Edmonton Jo

Release Date: May 30, 2009

It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. In his pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress—amassing a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. Orhan Pamuk’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring exploration of the nature of romance.