Orhan Pamuk

The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. In Istanbul at a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of artists are not allowed to know for whom they are working. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their Master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or religious terror? With the Sultan demanding an answer within three days, perhaps the clue lies somewhere in the half-finished pictures . . . From Turkey's winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Istanbul and The Museum of Innocence, this novel is a thrilling murder mystery set amid the splendour of Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is also a stunning meditation on love, artistic devotion and the tensions between East and West.

My Name Is Red

After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves.

Snow

A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get demolished and re-built, and he sees migrants from Anatolia making a fortune; at the same time, he witnesses all of the transformative moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is. What matters more in love: what we wish for, or what our fate has in store? Do our choices dictate whether we will be happy or not, or are these things determined by forces beyond our control? A Strangeness In My Mind tries to answer these questions while portraying the tensions between urban life and family life, and the fury and helplessness of women inside their homes.

A Strangeness in My Mind

Türkiye’nin yetiştirdiği en başarılı yazarlardan biri olan Orhan Pamuk, 2016 yılında yayımlanan Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın romanı ile kaleminin gücünü bir kez daha ortaya koyuyor. Klasik Orhan Pamuk üslubunun hissedildiği roman, sade dili ve zengin teknik anlatımı ile okurlarına incelikli bir keyif sunuyor. Romanın kurgusu, Pamuk’un birçok yapıtında olduğu gibi tarihi

Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın

Winner of the 1990 Independent Award for foreign fiction, this book tells the story of a young Italian scholar who is captured by pirates. Put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, he is bought by a Turkish servant, eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West.

The White Castle

Veba Geceleri

Roman om kærlighedshistorien mellem Mevlut og hans kæreste, som han skrev breve i tre år, samt Mevluts liv i gaderne i Istanbul i en periode, der strækker sig over fire årtier

boza satıcısı Mevlut Karataş'ın hayatı, maceraları, hayalleri ve arkadaşlarının hikâyesi ve 1969 ile 2012 yılları arasında İstanbul hayatının pek çok kişinin gözünden anlatılmış bir resmidir : roman

Kafamda bir tuhaflık

Een jongeman uit de betere kringen in Istanbul wordt verliefd op een arm familielid.

roman

Masumiyet müzesi

Benim Adım Kırmızı

Nazim Dikbaş

Nobel prize winning Orhan Pamuk takes us on a journey into the worlds of readers and writers through the lens of his own life. Pamuk’s very personal, autobiographical stories explain how he came to reading and writing. As someone who started out as a painter in his early twenties, Pamuk approaches his discussion of the novel with a strong visual sense. Explaining that readers and writers need to be both naïve and sentimental, he looks back to his early years and the varied works that inspired him, including writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul.

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his family, he goes with the beautiful Janan on a search for the meaning of the book's darker secrets.

The New Life

"Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened." It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find water in a barren land. This is the tale of their struggle, but it is also a deeper investigation - through mesmerising stories and images - into Pamuk's prevailing themes: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing. It is also a richly literary work: The Red-Haired Woman borrows from the tradition of the French conte philosophique and asks probing questions of ethics and of the role of art in our lives. It is both a short, realist text investigating a murder which took place thirty years ago near Istanbul - and a fictional inquiry into the literary foundations of civilizations, comparing two fundamental myths of the West and the East respectively: Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) and Ferdowsi's tale of Rostam and Sohrab (a story of filicide). The Red-Haired Woman is a masterful and mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists.

The Red-Haired Woman

Roman. Okuduğu bir kitaptan sarsılarak etkilenen ve kitabın vaat ettiği yeni hayatın peşinden koşan bir gencin öyküsü

Yeni hayat

Debutroman. En familiesaga i klassisk romantradition. Den skildrer familien Bey i tre generationer, gennem hovedpersonen Cevdet Bey, sønnen Osman og sønnesønnen Ahmet

Cevdet Bey ve oğulları

Beyaz kale

Sessiz ev

Roman, der består af 36 fortællinger, der kan læses hver for sig. Men i sin helhed handler romanen om at søge efter en drøm

Kara kitap

essays and a story

Other colors

Cevdet Bey ve Ogullari

Alex Webb

In 1998 Alex Webb visited Istanbul and was immediately enthralled by the people, the layers of culture and history, the richness of street life. But what particularly drew him in was a sense of Istanbul as a border city, lying between Europe and Asia. As he writes, For thirty-some years as a photographer I have been intrigued by borders, places where cultures come together, sometimes easily, sometimes roughly. He has returned to Istanbul whenever possible, and the resulting body of worksome of Webbs strongest to dateconveys the frisson of a culture in transition, yet firmly rooted in a complex history.

Matthias Sachau

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