| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9788466369695 | | Publisher: Punto de Lectura | | Publish Date: 9/24/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205777376 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.5H x 5L x 1.25T | | Pages: 672 |
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| | | A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings for love, art, power and God. Following years of lonely political exile in Germany, Ka, returns to Istanbul to attend his mothers funeral. Strange news of a wave of suicides leads him to Kars, a remote Turkish town where political Islamism threatens to unravel the secular order. Pamuk creates a stark picture of a too-little known part of the world, illuminating the hearts of the Muslim world.
| Author Bio| Orhan Pamuk | | Born in Istanbul in 1952 to a wealthy industrialist family, Orhan Pamuk has become one of Turkey's most internationally celebrated writers. His novels often deal with the complex interplay between Islamic traditions and modern European values. His writing has increasingly dealt with postmodern concepts of identity, reality, and the instability of narration, communication, and history. Since his first novel was published in 1979, Pamuk has received numerous awards in his home country and beyond, including the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Award in 2003 for his novel MY NAME IS RED, a murder mystery set in 16th century Istanbul that is narrated, in part, by the corpse of the victim. In 2005 Pamuk was charged with insulting Turkey by referring to the Armenian genocide in an interview, an offensive punishable with up to three years in prison. The case was particularly controversial because it came at a time when Turkey was eagerly seeking admission to the European Union, and the attack on free speech threatened to derail their bid. When the government refused to participate in the case, the charges were dropped. In 2006, Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for literature. |
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