Orhan Pamuk, trans, from the Turkish by Nazim Dikbas. Harvard Univ., $22.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-674-05076-1
Taking his title and inspiration from Schiller's "On Naive and Sentimental Poetry," Nobel Prize–winning Turkish novelist Pamuk (The Museum of Innocence) dissects what happens when we read a novel. Making a distinction between naïve novelists, "unawa
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Orhan Pamuk, trans. from the Turkish by Robert Finn. Knopf, $26.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-307-70028-5
In this first English publication of an early novel by the Nobel laureate, nonagenarian widow Fatma Darvinoglu lives in the eponymous house, a derelict villa in a seaside village near Istanbul. Bitter, sharp-tongued, and irritable, she arrived there
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Orhan Pamuk, read by a full cast. Random House Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.75 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-385-36801-8
Nobel Prize–winner Pamuk’s spirited and spellbinding second novel, previously unpublished in English, follows a Turkish family as they come together in a fishing village outside Istanbul prior to a military coup in 1980. Narrated by a talented cast...
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Orhan Pamuk, trans. from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap. Knopf, $28.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-307-70029-2
This mesmerizing ninth novel from Nobel laureate Pamuk (Silent House) is a sweeping epic chronicling Istanbul's metamorphosis from 1969 to 2012, as seen through the eyes of humble rural Anatolian migrant workers who come to the increasingly teeming...
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Orhan Pamuk, trans. from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap, read by John Lee. Books on Tape,
library exclusive, , unabridged, 18 CDs, 22 hrs., $55 ISBN 978-0-385-36856-8
Reader Lee has a pleasing baritone voice and a slightly clipped British accent that’s easy to settle into. Fortunately, he doesn’t need to create numerous other voices, because even though the story is told from the perspective of multiple...
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, John Lee, Read by Random House Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-6924-1
Acclaimed Turkish novelist Pamuk offers this fascinating murder mystery set against the backdrop of 16th-century Istanbul. The story surrounds a sultan who commissions a book to celebrate his life and times, as well as a set of talented artists...
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, George Andreou, Editor, Erdag Goknar, Translator , trans. from the Turkish by Erdag Göknar. Knopf $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-40695-9
Meshing the tropes of the tavern storyteller with the recent fashion for historical mysteries (à la The Name of the Rose
and An Instance of the Fingerpost), Pamuk's novel could cause a sensation here, just as it did in his native Turkey.
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Maureen Freely, Translator , trans. from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Knopf $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-40697-3
A Turkish poet who spent 12 years as a political exile in Germany witnesses firsthand the clash between radical Islam and Western ideals in this enigmatically beautiful novel. Ka's reasons for visiting the small Turkish town of Kars are twofold:
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Maureen Freely, Translator , trans. from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Knopf $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4095-7
Turkish novelist Pamuk (Snow
) presents a breathtaking portrait of a city, an elegy for a dead civilization and a meditation on life's complicated intimacies. The author, born in 1952 into a rapidly fading bourgeois family in Istanbul, spins a...
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Maureen Freely, Translator , trans. from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Knopf $26.95 (536p) ISBN 978-0-307-26676-7
Nobel laureate Pamuk's latest is a soaring, detailed and laborious mausoleum of love. During Istanbul's tumultuous 1970s, Kemal Bey, 30-year-old son of an upper-class family, walks readers through a lengthy catalogue of trivial objects,...
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Maureen Freely, Translator Knopf Publishing Group $27.95 (433p) ISBN 978-0-307-26675-0
Though the latest book from Nobel Prize-winning Pamuk (Istanbul, Snow) is a standard late-career essay collection, it makes clear the reasons behind the Turkish author's acclaim. Eschewing flash and flourish, Pamuk's style is plain, simple and...
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Victoria Holbrook, Translator George Braziller $17.5 (161p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1264-4
One of Turkey's foremost novelists explores the ambivalent relationship between master and slave in this elegant, postmodernist twist on the theme of the doppelganger. During the 17th century, a young Italian is captured by the Turkish fleet and...
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Guneli Gun, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-11394-0
Turkish novelist Pamuk's inventive, digressive new novel is a dazzling arabesque stuffed with fantastic tales, metaphysical thought experiments, dreams, symbolic fables, absurdist humor, childhood memories, social and political satire and excursions
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Guneli Gun, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (275p) ISBN 978-0-374-22129-4
With its fusion of literary elegance and incisive political commentary, Pamuk's previous novel, The Black Book, drew comparisons to the works of Salman Rushdie and Don DeLillo. Here, he confirms that talent, brilliantly chronicling his hapless hero's
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Orhan Pamuk, Author, Guneli Gun, Translator Mariner Books $17 (408p) ISBN 978-0-15-600329-2
Set in Istanbul, Turkish novelist Pamuk's latest is an elaborate and darkly comic meditation on identity. (June)
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Orhan Pamuk, trans. from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap. Knopf, $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-49442-9
Cem was a teenager when, in the mid-1980s, his father left him and his mother and the pharmacy that had supported their family in the Besiktas neighborhood of Istanbul. He soon takes work as an apprentice to a well digger, Master Mahut, and the two...
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Orhan Pamuk, trans. from the Turkish by Ekin Olap. Knopf, $34 (694p) ISBN 978-0-525-65689-0
In the ambitious latest from Nobel Prize winner Pamuk (My Name Is Red), a plague has swept through Mingheria, a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. The 1901 calamity was chronicled by Princess Pakize, whose letters historian Mina Mingher is...
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Orhan Pamuk. Knopf, $40 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-80124-6
Nobel Prize winner Pamuk (Nights of Plague) explores politics, his creative process, and the wonders of the natural world in this dazzling illustrated diary. Pamuk selects from 14 years of journal entries, which cover a period when he wrote several...
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