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In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or religious terror? A thrilling murder mystery, "My Name is Red" is also a stunning meditation on love, artistic devotion and the tensions between East and West.

Evocation d'une ville, roman de formation et réflexion sur la mélancolie, Istanbul est tout cela à la fois. Au fil des pages, Orhan Pamuk se remémore ses promenades d'enfant et nous entraîne, à travers ruelles et jardins, sur les rives du Bosphore, dessinant 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, d'autant que ces transformations accompagnent une autre déchirure, intime et douloureuse, celle provoquée par la lente désagrégation de la famille Pamuk. Dans cette œuvre foisonnante, magistralement composée et richement illustrée, Orhan Pamuk, en quête de l'âme mélancolique de sa ville natale, 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.

Orhan Pamuk, der 2006 den Nobelpreis fur Literatur erhielt, ergrundet in Istanbul die Geheimnisse seiner eigenen Familie und fuhrt uns an die verlorenen Paradiese der sagenhaften Stadt. Er beschreibt die verwunschenen Villen und verwilderten Garten, die Wasserstraen des Bosporus und des Goldenen Horns und die melancholischen Gassen der Altstadt. "Istanbul" ist ein Portrat der legendaren Stadt an der Schnittstelle zwischen Ost und West und zugleich ein Selbstbildnis des Schriftstellers als junger Mann.

En pleno invierno, un poeta y periodista regresa a su ciudad natal, la remota ciudad de Kars en la frontera de Turquía, después de largos años de exilio político en Europa occidental. La ciudad que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo: hay una ola de suicidios de chicas a las que se les ha prohibido llevar las cabezas cubiertas a la escuela, los islamistas van a ganar las elecciones locales, y el jefe de los servicios de inteligencia es de una eficiencia brutal.

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

C’est dans le quartier occidental de Nişantaşi que Cevdet Bey, un riche marchand musulman, s’installe avec son épouse pour fonder une famille. Nous sommes en 1905 et le sultan Abdülhamid II

"""Istanbul come malinconia condivisa, Istanbul come doppio, Istanbul come immagini in bianco e nero di edifici sbriciolati e di minareti fantasma, Istanbul come labirinto di strade osservate da alte finestre e balconi, Istanbul come invenzione degli stranieri, Istanbul come luogo di primi amori e ultimi riti: alla fine tutti questi tentativi di una definizione diventano Istanbul come autoritratto, Istanbul come Pamuk"".(Alberto Manguel, ""The Washington Post"") Una delle piu affascinanti citta del mondo raccontata con la passione enciclopedica del collezionista, l'amore del figlio, il lirismo intenso del poeta. "

"Investita da una tormenta di neve, la citta e un miscuglio di etnie e fazioni politiche. Ci sono turchi, curdi, georgiani, nazionalisti laici e integralisti religiosi. C'e la polizia segreta, c'e l'esercito e ci sono i terroristi islamici. Ka inizia la sua indagine, mentre la neve continua a cadere e le strade vengono chiuse. Kars e isolata. In citta, Ka rivede dopo diversi anni Ipek, una compagna di universita molto bella. Ka se ne innamora e sogna di portarla con se in Germania. Per realizzare questo sogno, fara di tutto. La situazione precipita quando una compagnia di teatro mette in scena un dramma degli anni Venti, scritto in sostegno della laicita dello Stato fondato da Ataturk, dove una donna, coraggiosamente, brucia il chador in pubblico. Durante lo spettacolo alcuni giovani del liceo religioso inscenano una protesta. E la serata finisce nel sangue. Ka viene coinvolto suo malgrado. È uno spettatore imparziale, ma molto confuso. Non sa nemmeno rispondere alla domanda: credi in Dio? Sostiene che a Kars ha ritrovato Allah, ma poi l'unica cosa che gli interessa e la ricerca, molto occidentale, della felicita. Il dilemma di Ka ruota intorno al confronto tra Occidente e Islam. "

"Fatma, insieme al nano Recep, figlio illegittimo del suo defunto marito, vive ancora nella casa in ci si trasferi con il suo sposo - un medico fallito, attivista politico e alcolista - quando decisero di abbandonare Istanbul agli inizi della rivoluzione del 1908. Nella cadente villa in legno Fatma, altezzosa e bisbetica, trascorre i giorni e le notti assorta nei ricordi, a rodersi in un cupo sentimento I suoi figli sono morti, ma i suoi tre nipoti ogni estate vanno a trovarla per un breve soggiorno. Faruk, il maggiore, e uno storico che, abbandonato dalla moglie, ha trovato nell'alcol un efficace palliativo alla noia; Nilgun e un'affascinante studentessa progressista che sogna una rivoluzione sociale che non arriva mai; il giovane Metin e un genio della matematica che vuole emigrare negli Stati Uniti per arricchirsi. Tutti e tre, per motivi diversi, desiderano che la nonna venda la casa. "

After twelve years in political exile in Germany, a poet Ka returns to Istanbul for his mother's funeral, and takes a commission to report on the municipal elections in Kars near the Russian border. There he discovers a dangerous atmosphere, with tensions running high between the political Islamists and the 'enlightened, pro-Western' Turkish military. The second half of the novel takes place over a three-day period. Following the set-piece military coup, Pamuk brilliantly explores such themes as politics, love, ethics, religion and poetry, as we gradually discover the real truth concerning the poet and the snow covered old-world city of Kars.

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son. They share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before Cennethisar became a high-class resort. Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. But it is Recep's nephew Hassan, a high-school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.

The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because figurative art is deemed by many to be an affront to Islam, the project must be kept secret. Panic and scandal erupt when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, along with a crucial page of the manuscript. The surviving artists - bitter rivals variously motivated by pride, greed, jealousy, faith and love - are all under suspicion of murder, and the only clue to the mystery lies in the half-finished illustrations themselves. My Name is Red reveals the clash between two views of artistic meaning and the chasm between two world civilizations. In this special edition the author includes a chronology of Islamic and Western art history to provide valuable context for his story, and has contributed a fascinating introduction throwing light on his methods, his aims and his inspiration

Esta novela, cuxa publicación en 1998 supuxo aconsagración internacional de Orhan Pamuk, está a partir de agora ao dispor dos lectores e lectoras galegos. É a sexta novela do Premio Nobel de 2006 que se publica no noso idioma, todas elas na Biblioteca Compostela de Narrativa Europea, coleccion que Galaxia tira do prelo coa colaboracion do Concello de Santiago. A fins da decada de 1590, o sultan de Istambul encarga en segredo un gran libro: unha homenaxe a sua vida e ao seu imperio que os mellores pintores da epoca deberan iluminar... a maneira dos europeos. Mais, sen que se saiba a causa, un dos miniaturistas e asasinado. O pintor morto, foi vitima da rivalidade profesional, de celos amorosos ou do fanatismo relixioso? Alen dun misterio apaixonante, Chamome Vermello encerra unha meditacion sorprendente sobre o amor, a dedicacion a arte e as tensions entre o Oriente e o Occidente. Velaqui algunhas opinions da critica internacional:"Esta novela e formalmente fantastica, ocorrente e asemade trata de cuestions fundamentais. [...]Pamuk transmite dun xeito totalmente convincente a textura emotiva, mental e fisica, da vida cotia."(Dick Davis, Times Literary Suplement)"Mais ca calquera outro libro que se me ocorra, capta non so as contradicions pasadas e actuais de Istambul, senon a sua terrible beleza atemporal. E case perfecto, noutras palabras."(Maureen Freely, New Statesman)"Fabulosa, desconcertante, emocionante... Radicalmente distinta a novela historica de misterio tradicional en Occidente... E unha novela prodixiosa, onirica, apaixonada e augusta, exotica no sentido mais orixinal."(Philo Hensher, Spectador)

"Con piu di 70 prose - e una storia - Pamuk mette in scena nelle pagine di questo libro un singolare autoritratto intellettuale costruito con sequenze di frammenti autobiografici, pensieri e ""momenti d'essere"". Al centro mette la sua citta e la sua attivita preferita (oltre a quella quasi compulsiva di leggere e scrivere): ""guardare fuori dalla finestra"", perche le finestre di Istanbul contengono tutte le storie della citta - un gesto che da il titolo al racconto che chiude il volume. Lo scrittore turco riunisce in un continuum narrativo situazioni, idee e immagini che quasi inspiegabilmente non sono mai confluite nei suoi romanzi. "

Istanbul, 1591. Tra i miniaturisti e illustratori al lavoro nel Palazzo delSultano si nasconde un feroce assassino. Per smascherarlo Nero è disposto atutto, anche a rischiare la vita. Perché se falli

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 po

'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces, in pursuit of an elusive vision. This is a wondrous odyssey, laying bare the rage of an arid heartland. In coffee houses with black-and-white TV sets, on buses where passengers ride watching B-movies on flickering screens, in wrecks along the highway, in paranoid fictions with spies as punctual as watches, the magic of Pamuk's creation comes alive.

No és el veritable objectiu de la novel·la i del museu exposar els nostres records amb la màxima sinceritat possible i, així, convertir la nostra felicitat en la felicitat dels altres? Kemal presenta