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From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes an engaging intellectual thriller and high romance set in Turkey about a young student whose life and identity is uprooted through the single act of reading a book. The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly...

A luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red. "One of the essential writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own.” —The New York...

Abril de 1901. Un barco se dirige hacia la isla de Minguer, la perla del Mediterráneo oriental. A bordo se encuentran la princesa Pakize Sultan, sobrina del sultán Abdülhamit II, y su reciente esposo, el doctor Nuri, pero también un misterioso pasajero que viaja de incógnito: el célebre inspector jefe de sanidad del Imperio otomano, encargado de confirmar los rumores de peste que han llegado hasta el continente. En las animadas calles de la capital portuaria nadie puede imaginar la amenaza, ni la revolución que está a punto de fraguarse.

En mitad de una tormenta de nieve, Ka, un periodista turco recién llegado de un largo exilio político en Alemania, se desplaza a la remota ciudad de Kars, al nordeste de Turquía. Lo que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo: han asesinado al alcalde y todo apunta a que los islamistas van a ganar las inminentes elecciones, hay un terrible temor al terrorismo kurdo y una ola de suicidios de chicas a las que se les ha prohibido llevar la cabeza cubierta a la escuela.

The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric and Rabelaisian in scope, it is a labyrinthine novel suffused with the sights, sounds and scents of Istanbul, an unforgettable evocation of the city where East meets West, and a boldly unconventional mystery that plumbs the elusive nature of identity, fiction, interpretation and reality.

The journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks...

«Un día la hermosa mujer de un hombre que la quería muchísimo lo abandonó. Él empezó a buscarla. Allá donde fuera por la ciudad encontraba su rastro pero no a ella...» Así cuenta su caso Galip, un joven abogado que vive en Estambul y quiere reencontrarse con Rüya, su esposa y prima. Sospecha que ha huido con otro hombre, con un hombre que bien podría ser alguien muy cercano, casi tan cercano como su propio hermanastro, un periodista excéntrico que también ha desaparecido. En su persecución alucinada, Galip recorre día y noche las calles de un Estambul real y fabuloso.

Orhan Pamuks Istanbul ist erfüllt von einer zauberhaften Melancholie des Niedergangs. Hier ist er aufgewachsen im Kreise seiner Großfamilie...

Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent, high profile, court case.

Istanbul in den 70er Jahren: Kurz vor seiner Verlobung trifft Kemal zufällig in einem schicken Laden eine entfernte arme Verwandte...

Un joven científico indiano es capturado por piratas cuando viaja de Venecia a Nápoles. Poco después es vendido como esclavo a un sabio turco deseoso de conocer los avances científicos de Occidente. Ambientado en la Turquía del siglo XVII, este audiolibro narra la extraordinaria historia de estos dos hombres, que curiosamente guardan un gran parecido físico. Escucha ahora esta fascinante exploración de la identidad, del fatídico pulso entre tradición y modernidad, y del destino del intelectual a través de la relación que surge entre ambos personajes.

1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Azizye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald build of pink stone.' The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. Each of them holds a separate mission. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead. Because Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe. There are rumours of plague—rumours some in power will try to suppress. Plague is not the only killer.

Ein Mann auf der Suche nach der geliebten, grundlos verschwundenen Frau. Auch ihr Halbbruder ist unauffindbar, dessen Zeitungskolumnen erscheinen jedoch weiterhin. Ein geheimnisvoller Hinweis? Tagelang streift Galip, Orhan Pamuks Held, durch die schillernde Ober- und Unterwelt Istanbuls, begegnet Zuhältern, Derwischen, Betrügern. Pamuks Roman und Kriminalgeschichte ist wie die Stadt am Bosporus voller Labyrinthe, alles wird symbolisch. Suchend ergründet Galip die Mysterien der Stadt und der eigenen Vergangenheit.

Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between "naive" poets-who write spontaneously, serenely, unselfconsciously-and "sentimental" poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to the beloved novels of his youth and ranging through the work of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul, he explores the oscillation between the naive and the reflective, and the search for an equilibrium, that lie at the center of the novelist's craft.

Kann man die falsche Frau heiraten und trotzdem die große Liebe finden? Mevlut ist elf, als er Ende der 60er Jahre von einem Dorf in Anatolien nach Istanbul kommt. Abends wandert er durch die Altstadt und bietet Boza feil, ein leicht alkoholisches Hirsegetränk. Auf der Hochzeit seines Cousins verliebt er sich in die jüngere Schwester der Braut.

غالباً ما يحب أورهان بماموق استخدام الألوان في عناوين كتبه، فيستخدم الأحمر مرتين والأبيض وهنا الأسود، ولذلك دلالات أدبية كثيرة تظهر في كل رواية على حدة، عندما...

The moving story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in a village near Istanbul, a widow awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf - and her late husband's illegitimate son.

Nobel Prize-winner and best-selling novelist Orhan Pamuk comes to Symphony Space for a conversation with author Elif Batuman ( The Idiot) on his latest novel, The Red-Haired Woman. Sit down with one of the greatest storytellers of our time as he talks about the eternal conflicts of fathers and sons, of East and West, of tradition and modernity. With a performance from the novel by actor David Furr ( Noises Off).

Als er die Schauspielerin zum ersten Mal sieht, ist Cem nur der einfache Lehrling des Brunnenbauers Murat, der in einem wüstenhaften Vorort von Istanbul endlich auf Wasser stoßen will. Sie ist schön, ihr rotes Haar leuchtet, während sie im Theaterzelt "Rostam und Sorhab" spielt, ein Stück, in dem der Vater versehentlich den Sohn tötet. Je mehr der Lehrling sich zu der Rothaarigen hingezogen fühlt, desto mehr entfremdet er sich von Meister Murat, der für ihn wie ein Vater ist.

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons. On the outskirts of a town 30 miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating metre by metre, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before - not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities.