The Black Book
(Orhan Pamuk)
During one week, day and night in Istanbul, a young lawyer, Galip, leaves in search of his wife Ruya, whom he has loves since childhood, and who has left him a mysterious letter. Is this a game? A goodbye? In the foolish hope of finding her, he digs up his memories and Ruya''s militant past. He reads and rereads the writings of Djelal, his wife''s half-brother, columnist for a large daily newspaper -- a secret man whom he admires. But he also seems to have disappeared. In the search for these two people he loves, Galip is at the same time on a quest for his own identity and, soon, that of Istanbul. Orhan Pamuk presents the city in a singular fashion, always covered in snow, always muddy, and ambiguous: on the one hand Westernized, on the other hand traditional. It''s thus, through the city''s bias, that Orhan Pamuk gives this novel of love and simply pathetic friendship a grand, historical dimension. Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer whose novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, received the Nobel Prize for literature in October 2006.
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