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 Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--"master"--a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics....
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 ...
Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a...
Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals...
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 and the melancholy-or huzun- that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the...
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 ...
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 Fusun, 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 Fusun 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...
It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounte...
Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht Istanbuls, verfllt der Liebe zu einer armen Verwandten - der blutjungen, naiven und wunderschnen Fsun. Was als Affre begonnen hat, wchst sich bald zu einer Obsession aus, doch das hindert Kemal nicht daran, die Beziehung mit seiner Verlobten fortzufhren. Nach dem rauschenden Verlobungsfest lsst sich die Geliebte nicht mehr blicken. Verzweifelt erkennt Kemal, dass er Fsun ber alles liebt. Doch es ist zu spt. Der Nobelpreistrger Orhan Pamuk erzhlt in seinem groen Liebesroman von einer Gesellschaftsschicht der Trkei, die in vielem ganz und gar westlich...
Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht Istanbuls, verfllt der Liebe zu einer armen Verwandten - der blutjungen, naiven und wunderschnen Fsun. Was ...
Ein Fremder kommt nach Kars, eine trkische Provinzstadt, um eine merkwrdige Serie von Selbstmorden zu untersuchen: Junge Mdchen haben sich umgebracht, weil man sie zwang, das Kopftuch abzulegen. Pltzlich kommt es zu einem Putsch, inszeniert von einem Schauspieler. Ein Theatercoup? Doch es fliet echtes Blut, es intervenieren echte Soldaten, keiner kann die Stadt verlassen, weil es unaufhrlich schneit ... Ein aktueller Roman, in dessen Zentrum die Frage nach der Identitt der Trkei zwischen Verwestlichung und Islamismus steht.
Ein Fremder kommt nach Kars, eine trkische Provinzstadt, um eine merkwrdige Serie von Selbstmorden zu untersuchen: Junge Mdchen haben sich umgebracht,...
Orhan Pamuk schreibt über sein Istanbul. Ein Prachtband, mit zahlreichen Fotografien von Ara Güler, Henri Cartier-Bresson, dem jungen Orhan Pamuk und vielen anderen
Orhan Pamuk schreibt über sein Istanbul. Ein Prachtband, mit zahlreichen Fotografien von Ara Güler, Henri Cartier-Bresson, dem jungen Orhan Pamuk un...
Stan bardzo dobry - książka była czytana, ale jeszcze długo posłuży innym czytelnikom. Ma ślady używania - otwierania i kartkowania, rysy, zabrudzenia. Wygląda jak książka, którą wypożyczasz w bibliotece.
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections.
Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller s famous distinction between...
Stan bardzo dobry - książka była czytana, ale jeszcze długo posłuży innym czytelnikom. Ma ślady używania - otwierania i kartkowania, rysy, zab...
