Orhan Pamuk

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red: a soaring, panoramic new novel—his first since The Museum of Innocence—telling the unforgettable tale of an Istanbul street vendor and the love of his life. Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has …

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

Den vita borgen är en roman av Orhan Pamuk, skriven 1985. Originalets titel är Beyaz Kale. Handlingen äger rum i Konstantinopel på 1600-talet dit en venetiansk man förs som slav. Han hamnar hos vetenskapsmannen Hodja och tillsammans får de i uppdrag att bygga krigsmaskiner åt sultanen. I början gör Hodja och mannen …

The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontier towns of Turkey. And with The New Life, Pamuk himself vaults from the forefront of his country's writers into the arena of …