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"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. "

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.

'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.

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

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 portrays 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.

ORHAN PAMUK: BALKON

Shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize for best work of literary fiction translated into English. 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 metre by metre, the two will develop a father/son bond that neither has known before. But in the nearby town, where they spend their evenings, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre group, catches his eye, and she seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. But in his distraction a horrible accident occurs, and he will spend his life unaware of the outcome, or who the Red-Haired Woman was, until many years later.

"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.

En el siglo XVII un científico es capturado por piratas y vendido como esclavo a un astrólogo que, curiosamente, guarda un gran parecido físico con él. Una fascinante exploración de la identidad y del destino intelectual a traves de la relacion que surge entre ellos. Edicion de bolsillo.

Alors qu'il passe quelques semaines auprès d'un maître puisatier pour gagner un peu d'argent avant d'entrer a l'université, le jeune Cem rencontre une troupe de comédiens ambulants et, parmi eux, une femme a la belle chevelure rousse. Il s'en éprend immédiatement, et, malgré leur différence d'âge, se noue entre eux l'esquisse d'une histoire d'amour.Mais les promesses de cet été sont soudainement balayées lorsque survient un accident sur le chantier du puits. Cem rentre a Istanbul le cœur gros de souvenirs, et n'aura de cesse de tenter d'oublier ce qui s'est passé. C'est sans compter sur la force du destin qui finit toujours par s'imposer aux hommes, et leur rappeler ce qu'ils ont voulu enfouir au plus profond d'eux-mêmes.Dans ce roman de formation aux allures de fable sociale, Orhan Pamuk tisse a merveille un récit personnel avec l'histoire d'un pays en pleine évolution, et fait magistralement résonner la force des mythes anciens dans la Turquie contemporaine. Avec tendresse et érudition,La Femme aux Cheveux rouxnous interroge sur les choix de l'existence et la place véritable de la liberté.

Comme tant d’autres, Mevlut a quitté son village pour s’installer sur les collines qui bordent Istanbul. Il y vend de la boza, cette boisson fermentée traditionnelle prisée par les Turcs. Mais Istanb

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.

Edición especial y definitiva de la gran obra del Premio Nobel de Literatura Orhan Pamuk, ampliada con 250 nuevas fotografías y una nueva introducción.Estambul. Ciudad y recuerdos es sin duda el libro mas celebre de Orhan Pamuk. Su publicacion en lengua española en 2006 y la obtencion del Premio Nobel ese mismo año colocaron al autor en primera linea del panorama narrativo internacional, convirtiendose en el gran referente de la literatura turca. El autor nacio en Estambul y aun hoy sigue viviendo en el mismo apartamento familiar. El retrato de esta ciudad asentada en las ruinas de un imperio perdido, con sus decrepitas mansiones con vistas al Bosforo, asi como de la familia de Pamuk y de los escritores y artistas que dieron forma a la percepcion de la metropoli, es a su vez un autorretrato refractado por elhuzun,lamelancolia turca que comparte con sus conciudadanos, y por su propia memoria.Desde la publicacion original de la obra, Orhan Pamuk ha seguido ampliando su coleccion de fotografias de Estambul, seleccionando mas de doscientas imagenes adicionales, provenientes de sus archivos familiares, de coleccionistas especializados en la ciudad y de fotografos como Ara Guler o Henri Cartier-Bresson, para incluirlas en esta nueva edicion definitiva que ademas incorpora una introduccion inedita. Como el Dublin de Joyce y el Buenos Aires de Borges, el Estambul de Pamuk es un victorioso y conmovedor encuentro entre un lugar y la sensibilidad de un gran autor de nuestro tiempo.

Orhan Pamuk erzählt vom schillernden Leben eines Straßenverkäufers, als Istanbul sich in eine moderne Metropole verwandelt.Kann man die falsche Frau heiraten und trotzdem die große Liebe finden? Mevlut ist Straßenverkäufer in Istanbul, als er sich Ende der 60er Jahre auf der Hochzeit seines Cousins in die jüngere Schwester der Braut verliebt. Drei Jahre lang schreibt er ihr Liebesbriefe nach Anatolien. Doch dann schickt man ihm die ältere Schwester. Pflichtbewusst heiratet Mevlut sie, und ausgerechnet ein Jugendfreund nimmt seine Angebetete zur Frau. Die beiden Familien leben drei Jahrzehnte in enger Verbundenheit, doch dann nimmt ihr Schicksal eine dramatische Wende. Istanbul aus der Sicht kleiner Leute, vor allem aber eine großartige

Durante una semana, días y noches en la mágica capital de Turquía, un joven abogado, Galip, emprende la búsqueda de su mujer, a quien ama con locura desde la infancia, y que ha desaparecido dejando una carta de diecinueve palabras. ¿Se trata de un juego¿ ¿De un adiós? En cualquier caso, será también el descubrimiento de su propia identidad. A lo largo de la investigación, el lector acompañará al protagonista siguiendo indicios, reuniendo piestas, desntro de una coherente trama de espejismos e ironías.