Black book / Orhan Pamuk ; translated by Maureen Freely.

By:

Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-

Contributor(s):

Freely, Maureen, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Turkish Publication details: London Faber and Faber 2006Description: xi, 466 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780571225255(pbk.)

Other title:

The black book

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

894.3533 PAM

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Summary: Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving R�uya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Cel�al, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cel�al, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Cel�al's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely's beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.--Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	894.3533 PAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K5372

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Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving R�uya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Cel�al, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cel�al, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Cel�al's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely's beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.--Publisher description.

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