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The Museum of Innocence
Description“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t recognize it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Award, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.It is 1975, a ideal spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is concerning to become engaged to Sibel, ...
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ManufacturerKnopf
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Turkey   Contemporary   Literary   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Istanbul: Memories and the City
DescriptionA shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s excellent cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is like so in addition a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or ...
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ManufacturerVintage
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My Name Is Red
DescriptionFrom one of the much important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel—part murder mystery, part love story—set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.

When the Sultan commissions a excellent book to celebrate his royal self and his widespread dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a ...
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ManufacturerKnopf
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Turkey   Contemporary   Literary   General   Historical   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Snow
DescriptionDread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism–these are the elements this 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 ...
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories Turkey   Contemporary   Literary   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
The White Castle
DescriptionOrhan Pamuk proffers a dazzling work of historical and philosophical fiction, set amid the scholarship and savagery of 17th-century Constantinople. When a young Italian scholar is taken prisoner, he becomes the slave and tutor of a Turkish scholar who is his exact double. THE WHITE CASTLE is a triumph of the imagination, as colorful and intricately ...
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ManufacturerGeorge Braziller
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Historical   Turkey   Contemporary   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Black Book
DescriptionA New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely

Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he locates himself assuming the ...
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories Turkey   Contemporary   Literary   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Other Colors: Essays and a Story (Vintage International)
DescriptionIn the three decades this Nobel award-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has in addition produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We in addition study how he lives, ...
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories General   Turkey   Classics   Paperback   Printed Books  
Memed, My Hawk
DescriptionMemed, My Hawk is an epic story of the Middle East by modern Turkey's greatest novelist. Memed grows up in a remote and desperately poor mountain village this suffers under the thumb of the local landlord. Lively and adventurous, young Memed seeks to escape from a life of grueling toil. He runs away, but is shortly tracked down; delivered ...
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ManufacturerNYRB Classics
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   NYRB Classics   Turkey   Contemporary   Literary   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
A Mind at Peace
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Set on the eve of World War II, A Intellect at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Poetically drawing on the results of cultural upheaval on the unique, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar illuminates the precarious balance ...

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ManufacturerArchipelago Books
Categories Historical   Turkey   Contemporary   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Bliss: A Novel
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Fifteen-year-old Meryem lives in a rural village in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Her neat, conventional way of life changes spectacularly afterwards her uncle, a sheikh in a dervish order, rapes her—and condemns her to death for shaming the family. Asked to carry out the “honor killing” is his son Cemal, a commando in the Turkish army. ...
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ManufacturerSt. Martin's Griffin
Categories Political   Domestic Life   Turkey   Contemporary   Literary   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
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