Orhan Pamuk

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …