Orhan Pamuk,Maureen Freely
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely,Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novelâ€“loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or, ,CelÃ¢l, a popular newspaper columnist? But CelÃ¢l, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable CelÃ¢l'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 Freelyâ€™s beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.
Fiction,Asian Literature,Turkish Literature,Cultural,Turkish,Mystery,Novels,Literature,Nobel Prize,Literary Fiction,Contemporary,Roman
The Black Book