The Black Book
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The Black Book
Narrated by:
John Lee
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Narrated by:
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John Lee
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Written by:
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Orhan Pamuk
“A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention.” —The Washington Post
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 translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.
A Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
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What the critics say
“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)
"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)
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