{"title":"Orhan Pamuk","description":"Orhan Pamuk is the author of seven novels and the recipient of major Turkish and international literary awards. He is one of Europe's most prominent novelists, and his work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He lives in Istanbul.","products":[{"product_id":"the-new-life-paperback","title":"The New Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eMy Name is Red\u003c\/i\u003e comes an engaging intellectual thriller and high romance set in Turkey about a young student whose life and identity is uprooted through the single act of reading a book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. And with The New Life, Pamuk himself vaults from the forefront of his country's writers into the arena of world literature. Through the single act of reading a book, a young student is uprooted from his old life and identity. Within days of reading a book, a young student's old life and identity is uprooted, and he's fallen in love with the luminous and elusive Janan; witnessed the attempted assassination of a rival suitor; and forsaken his family to travel aimlessly through a nocturnal landscape of traveler's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. And with The New Life, Pamuk himself vaults from the forefront of his country's writers into the arena of world literature. Through the single act of reading a book, a young student is uprooted from his old life and identity. Within days he has fallen in love with the luminous and elusive Janan; witnessed the attempted assassination of a rival suitor; and forsaken his family to travel aimlessly through a nocturnal landscape of traveler's 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] weird, hypnotic new novel...It veers from intellectual conundrums in the Borges vein to rapturous lyricism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.\"--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103121838303,"sku":"9780375701719","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uJ2tn-CQjB9780375701719.webp?v=1781090330"},{"product_id":"the-museum-of-innocence-paperback","title":"The Museum of Innocence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize winner and \"one of the great novelists\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post) \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Istanbul. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. In his pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress--amassing a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104282546399,"sku":"9780307386243","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kTwNvcooTm9780307386243.webp?v=1781104563"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/orhan-pamuk.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}