Snø er en roman av den tyrkiske forfatteren Orhan Pamuk. Publisert på tyrkisk i 2002 og utgitt første gang på norsk i 2005. I form av en spenningsroman beveger den seg på et psykologisk, politisk og filosofisk plan. Forfatteren gjør også flittig bruk av humor, og romanen kan til tider karakteriseres som …
Mitt navn er Karmosin er en roman av den tyrkiske forfatteren Orhan Pamuk. Den er forfatterens sjette roman, og kom ut i 2000. Historia utspiller seg i løpet av ni vinterdager i Istanbul i 1591, og romanens hovedpersoner er miniatyrmalere i Det ottomanske riket. I åpningskapitlet blir en av miniatyrmalerne brutalt …
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …