At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition...
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting t...
Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a...
Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals...
The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining term in the consideration of works by artists such as Mona Hatoum and Shirin Neshat. Resisting any homogenizing impulse, Without Boundary recognizes a need to ask if this art is marked by an Islamic difference. Author and curator Fereshteh Daftari considers issues ranging from the aesthetic legacy of Islamic art to contemporary ideas of identity and faith. Essays by MoMA Director...
The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but ...
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections.
Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller s famous distinction between naive poets who write spontaneously, serenely, unselfconsciously and sentimental poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to the beloved novels...
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a po...
Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht Istanbuls, verfllt der Liebe zu einer armen Verwandten - der blutjungen, naiven und wunderschnen Fsun. Was als Affre begonnen hat, wchst sich bald zu einer Obsession aus, doch das hindert Kemal nicht daran, die Beziehung mit seiner Verlobten fortzufhren. Nach dem rauschenden Verlobungsfest lsst sich die Geliebte nicht mehr blicken. Verzweifelt erkennt Kemal, dass er Fsun ber alles liebt. Doch es ist zu spt. Der Nobelpreistrger Orhan Pamuk erzhlt in seinem groen Liebesroman von einer Gesellschaftsschicht der Trkei, die in vielem ganz und gar westlich...
Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht Istanbuls, verfllt der Liebe zu einer armen Verwandten - der blutjungen, naiven und wunderschnen Fsun. Was ...
Ein Fremder kommt nach Kars, eine trkische Provinzstadt, um eine merkwrdige Serie von Selbstmorden zu untersuchen: Junge Mdchen haben sich umgebracht, weil man sie zwang, das Kopftuch abzulegen. Pltzlich kommt es zu einem Putsch, inszeniert von einem Schauspieler. Ein Theatercoup? Doch es fliet echtes Blut, es intervenieren echte Soldaten, keiner kann die Stadt verlassen, weil es unaufhrlich schneit ... Ein aktueller Roman, in dessen Zentrum die Frage nach der Identitt der Trkei zwischen Verwestlichung und Islamismus steht.
Ein Fremder kommt nach Kars, eine trkische Provinzstadt, um eine merkwrdige Serie von Selbstmorden zu untersuchen: Junge Mdchen haben sich umgebracht,...
Der Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk erzählt in "Diese Fremdheit in mir" vom schillernden Leben eines Straßenverkäufers, als Istanbul sich in eine moderne Metropole verwandelt.
Der Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk erzählt in "Diese Fremdheit in mir" vom schillernden Leben eines Straßenverkäufers, als Istanbul sich in eine mod...
Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Orhan Pamuk's bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.Since the publication of Istanbul, Pamuk has continued to add to his collection of photographs of Istanbul.
Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Orhan Pamuk's bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibi...
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.
Shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize for best work of literary fiction translated into English. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Is...