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The Black Book

By Orhan Pamuk

By Orhan Pamuk

By Orhan Pamuk
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By Orhan Pamuk
Read by John Lee

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.95

Jul 11, 2006 | 480 Pages

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Mar 06, 2018 | 1147 Minutes

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    About The Black Book

    A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely

    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 clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.

    With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.

    About The Black Book

    A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely

    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 clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.

    With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.

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    Also by Orhan Pamuk

    The Red-Haired Woman
    Istanbul (Deluxe Edition)
    A Strangeness in My Mind
    Along the Bosphorus
    Silent House
    See all books by Orhan Pamuk

    About Orhan Pamuk

    Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages.

    About Orhan Pamuk

    Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages.

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 11, 2006 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400078653

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Mar 06, 2018 | 1147 Minutes | ISBN 9780525595823

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    Praise

    “A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention.” —The Washington Post"A splendid novel, as delicious to our mind’s palate as a Turkish delight and as subtle . . . in its design as a Persian rug." — San Francisco Chronicle"An extraordinary, tantalizing novel." —The Nation"An inventive and . . . exuberant modern national epic."—Sunday Times (London)

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 2006

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