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Galip descobreix un dia que la dona l’ha abandonat d’una manera inexplicable, però abans li ha deixat una nota confusa que enfonsa el jove en el dubte: es tracta d’un joc o d’un adéu definitiu? Al ma

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 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.

1905, Istanbul. Cevdet Bey, riche marchand musulman, s’installe avec son épouse dans le quartier occidental de Nişantaşi. L’Empire ottoman amorce son déclin, et les élites turques contestent le pouv

Cem era un liceale nella Istanbul di meta anni Ottanta come tanti altri quando suo padre farmacista viene arrestato dal governo e torturato dalla polizia a causa delle sue frequentazioni politiche. Non fara mai piu ritorno a casa. Per aiutare la madre Cem andra a lavorare in una libreria: e qui, tra i romanzi e gli scrittori che vengono a trovare il padrone della libreria, che Cem iniziera a sognare di diventare uno scrittore. Rimarra sempre con questo desiderio, con questa fame di storie, anche se la vita ha in serbo altro per lui: quando la libreria chiude, Cem diventa l'apprendista di mastro Mahmut, un costruttore di pozzi. Tra maestro e allievo si stabilisce un legame profondo, e il ragazzo sente di aver trovato in Mahmut quel padre che da lungo tempo ha perso. Mahmut e la sua ditta hanno un nuovo incarico: scavare un pozzo in un paese nei dintorni di Istanbul. Ed e li che Cem incontrera l'attrice dai capelli rossi. Iniziera a spiarla mentre e in scena, indifferente alla tragedia a cui sta assistendo, concentrato solo su di lei, e poi nella casa dove vive col marito, per strada. Fino a quando l'ossessione erotica per questa donna piu grande di lui si trasformera in un'unica, folle, indimenticabile notte di sesso. Cem non potrebbe essere piu felice: non sa che la sua vita cambiera per sempre e che il destino ha gia iniziato a tessere la sua complicata, crudelissima, imprevedibile trama. Con la storia di Cem, personale e universale allo stesso tempo, Orhan Pamuk interroga i fondamenti letterari della civilta occidentale e orientale, intrecciando l'Edipo Re di Sofocle con il Rostam e Sohrab di Ferdowsi per scrivere il suo romanzo piu sorprendente e fulminante.

Published in Turkey in September 2008, six years in the writing, this novel is already Orhan Pamuk's best-selling book ever in Turkey. "The Museum of Innocence" is a rich and humorous love story set in Istanbul between 1975 and today. It tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique.

In una Istanbul labirintica e malinconica descritta con straordinaria vivezza e precisione, un giovane avvocato, Galip, parte alla ricerca della moglie scomparsa. Prima di lasciarlo, Ruya ha scritto una lettera d''addio, e al di la delle diciannove, vaghe parole contenute nel messaggio, Galip e colpito dal fatto che la moglie abbia usato una biro verde. Una biro come quella che Galip aveva perso in mare quand''era bambino durante una gita in barca con Ruya, e che Celal, fratellastro di Ruya, aveva inserito in una magistrale puntata della sua rubrica sul "Milliyet" dove immaginava tutti gli oggetti che sarebbero venuti alla luce "il giorno che il Bosforo andra in secca". Tutto a Istanbul e inestricabilmente legato, e come in un sogno tutto puo assumere un altro significato e ogni nome diventare pseudonimo. Celal e un giornalista importante, amato e odiato, ma comunque molto letto. Dice di se che avrebbe preferito occuparsi soltanto di argomenti solenni, battaglie decisive e amori infelici. Si ritrova invece a essere uno scrittore "pittoresco", impegnato in un''opera enciclopedica di ricostruzione della citta, attraverso gli oggetti della modernita dai nomi occidentali e quelli polverosi e mezzi rotti della tradizione ("le cose che ci siamo lasciati alle spalle"). Ma Celal non puo aiutare Galip nella sua indagine perche e scomparso anche lui.

Literatur-Nobelpreis 2006 - Orhan Pamuk: "Die beste Entscheidung seit Jahren." Frank Schirrmacher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Der Student Osman verfällt nicht nur einem rätselhaften Buch, sondern auch der schönen Canan, in deren Hand er dieses Buch zum ersten Mal sah. Als Canan plötzlich verschwindet, begibt sich Osman auf die Suche nach ihr und der Welt, die das Buch beschreibt. ›Ein neues Leben‹ beginnt und führt ihn auf albtraumhaften Busfahrten kreuz und quer durch die Türkei. "Ein bewundernswertes Amalgam aus türkischer Lebenswelt, modernem Roman, deutscher Romantik, Sufismus und amerikanischem road-novel." Thomas Steinfeld

Orhan Pamuk fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2006. En la entrega oficial del galardón, Pamuk leyó «La maleta de mi padre», un emocionante discurso que habla de la naturaleza de la

Évocation d'une ville, roman de formation et réflexion sur la mélancolie, Istanbul est tout cela a la fois. Au gré des pages, Orhan Pamuk se remémore ses promenades d'enfant, a pied, en voiture ou en bateau, et nous entraîne a travers ruelles en pente et jardins, sur les rives du Bosphore, devant des villas décrépites, dessinant ainsi le portrait fascinant d'une métropole en déclin. Ancienne capitale d'un vaste empire, Istanbul se cherche une identité, entre tradition et modernité, religion et laïcité, et les changements qui altèrent son visage n'échappent pas au regard de l'écrivain, fin connaisseur de son histoire, d'autant que ces transformations accompagnent une autre déchirure, bien plus intime et douloureuse, celle provoquée par la lente désagrégation de la famille Pamuk - une famille dont les membres, grands-parents, oncles et tantes, ont tous vécus dans le même immeuble - et par la dérive a la fois financière et affective de ses parents. Dans cette oeuvre foisonnante, magistralement composée et richement illustrée, Orhan Pamuk nous propose de remonter avec lui le temps de son éducation sentimentale et, in fine, de lire le roman de la naissance d'un écrivain.

«Un libro muy ambicioso en el que he trabajado durante más de una década. La historia tiene lugar en Estambul desde 1975 hasta hoy y trata sobre una pasión obsesiva y una gran pregunta: ¿Qué es el

The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk''s celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar captured by pirates and put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market. Acquired by a brilliant Turkish inventor, he is set to work on projects to entertain the jaded Sultan. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and lives there with his family. He won the 1990 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction for The White Castle. In 1994, The New Life became the fastest-selling book in Turkish history. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.

Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht Istanbuls, verfallt der Liebe zu einer armen Verwandten - der blutjungen, naiven und wunderschonen Fusun. Was als Affare begonnen hat, wachst sich bald zu einer Obsession aus, doch das hindert Kemal nicht daran, die Beziehung mit ...

La nueva novela del Premio Nobel Orhan Pamuk.Una historia de amor y parricidio en el Estambul de 1980.«Hoy por hoy, después de tantos años, los celos me impelen a no revelar su nombre, ni siquiera a

Jo volia ser escriptor, però després dels fets que em disposo a descriure, vaig estudiar enginyeria geològica i vaig començar a treballar de contractista. De tota manera, el lector no hauria de pensar, en base al meu relat, ara que tot ha passat, que ho he deixat enrere. Com més ho recordo, més ficat hi estic. I potser tu també t'hi ficaras, atret per l'enigma dels pares i els fills.

"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 t...

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, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before -not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other and exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world.But in the nearby town, where they buy provisions and take their evening break, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre company, catches his eye and seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. The young man''s wildest dream will be realized, but, when in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well digger, the boy will flee, returning to Istanbul. Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master''s death and who the redheaded enchantress was.

Un llibre misteriós capgira la rutinaria vida de l'Osman Bey per sempre. Aquella lectura i un tiroteig als carrers nevats d'Istanbul converteixen el nostre jove heroi en un viatger nocturn. Acompanyat de la Djanan, la dona de la qual esta enamorat i que va deixar el llibre «per atzar» sobre la taula d'un cafè, l'Osman es passa anys intentant comprendre els seus secrets i acaba recorrent la immensitat de la Turquia profunda a la recerca del Mehmet, l'home que ella estima i l'únic que sembla que pot entendre el poder del llibre.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE'One of the world's finest living writers.' Independent'In this world of forgeries, where some might be in danger of losing their faith in literature, Pamuk is the real thing.' Savkar Altinel, Observer'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' Daily TelegraphEvery day for over a decade, Orhan Pamuk has written and drawn in his notebooks. Translated into English for the first time, these stunning snapshots of his life and creative process are a wonderful accompaniment to his bestselling works of fiction.They include daily events and reflections, dialogues with his imagined characters, notes on his works-in-progress, his experience of writer's block and the unfolding of his difficulties with the current Turkish government. Each entry is illustrated in the author's uniquely idiosyncratic and charming style.