Description
The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontier towns of Turkey. Within days of reading a book, a young student's old life and identity are uprooted: he falls in love with the luminous and elusive Janan; witnesses the attempted assassination of a rival suitor; and forsakes his family to travel aimlessly through a nocturnal landscape of travelers' cafes and apocalyptic bus wrecks. As imagined by Pamuk, the result is a wondrous marriage of the intellectual thriller and high romance.
Translated from the Turkish by Guneli Gun.
An engaging intellectual thriller and high romance set in Turkey about a young student whose life and identity are uprooted through the single act of reading a book.
Endorsements
From the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk.