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  My Name Is Red (Vintage International)

  by Orhan Pamuk, Erdag? M. Go?knar

  At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of... (more)
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  Snow

  by Orhan Pamuk

  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... (more)
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  Istanbul: Memories and the City (Vintage International)

  by Maureen Freely, Orhan Pamuk

  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 h ü z ü n– that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of... (more)
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  The Black Book (Vintage International)

  by Maureen Freely, Orhan Pamuk

  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... (more)
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  The New Life (Vintage International)

  by Orhan Pamuk

  The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontier towns of Turkey. And with The New Life , Pamuk himself vaults from the forefront of his country's writers into the arena of world literature. Through the single act of reading a book, a young student is uprooted from his old... (more)
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  The White Castle: A Novel (Vintage International)

  by Orhan Pamuk

  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... (more)
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  Other Colors: Essays and a Story

  by Maureen Freely, Orhan Pamuk

  Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces—personal, critical, and meditative—the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his... (more)
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  Threebies: Orhan Pamuk (Faber "Threebies")

  by Orhan Pamuk

  This set of three books by Orhan Pamuk includes: "Black Book"; "New Life"; and "The White Castle". It forms part of Faber's "Threebies" series, which offers different sets of three titles, each set written by a best-selling author.
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  Granta 78: Bad Company (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

  Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. “Granta’s contributors constitute an impossibly distinguished list.” — The Washington Post