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From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them on the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well-digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating meter by meter without luck, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before-not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor ...
As he investigates the mysterious disappearance of his wife and a popular newspaper columnist, Celal, Galip finds himself assuming the enviable Celal’s identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery and a provocative meditation on identity.
Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karatas has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve, he comes to Istanbul-‘the center of the world’-and is immediately enthralled both by the city being demolished and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza on the street, and hopes to become rich like other villagers who have ...
Brilliantly narrated by a series of clever characters, this work is a stimulating brew of mystery, romance and rhapsody on the very nature of art. Inspired and inspiring, it confirms Orhan Parmuk as a Nobel-calibre artist in his own right. But I have no style whatsoever. Having a style would be worse than being a murderer. At the end of the sixteenth century, the art of Ottoman miniature painting is in a precarious state. The sultan has commissioned a great book: ...