In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer 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 bedrid[...]

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer 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 bedrid[...]

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 connec[...]

The first book-length study of the life and writings of Ohran Pamuk, the first Turkish writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.[...]

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, Celal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he findshimself assuming the enviable Celal's identity, w[...]

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's preeminent novelist and internationally recognized figure of letters. Influenced by both Turkish and European literature, his works interrogate problems of modernity and of East and West in the Turkish context and incorporate t[...]

Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides, the bleak, impoverished border city of Kars, [...]

This collection of essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who-despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him-remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relatio[...]

Mitt navn er Karmosin foregår over ni dager i et snøkledd Istanbul. Året er 1591. Den første som snakker, er en død mann som ligger i en brønn. Han kjenner sin morder, og vet hvorfor han er myrdet. Det fins et komplott mot hele det osmanske riket, mot kulturen, religionen og tradisjonene. En [...]

Tyrkia på 1700-tallet: En ung italiener blir tatt til fange av sjørøvere på en reise mellom Venezia og Napoli. Fangen blir ført til Istanbul og solgt som slave, og slik blir han en annen manns eiendom. Kjøperen er en lærdomsbesatt fantast - som er oppsatt på å skaffe seg kunnskap om de sist[...]

Hva skjer når vi skriver og leser romaner? Og hvorfor gjør vi det? Les en stor leser og romanforfatters innlysende svar! Du blir mye klokere, og du blir underholdt underveis.Boka er basert på forelesninger nobelprisvinneren Orhan Pamuk holdt omkring romankunsten i 2009 på Harvard i USA.Tittelen [...]