Orhan Pamuk
1) Snow
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Everyman's library volume 338
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"Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant and newly divorced Ipek, a friend of Ka's youth, whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm...
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"When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed, and no one in the elite circle can know the full scope or nature of the project." "Panic erupts...
3) Silent house
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Awaiting the arrival of her grandchildren in her home outside Istanbul, bed-ridden widow Fatma shares memories and grievances with her late husband's illegitimate son until his cousin, a right-wing nationalist, involves the family in the Turkish military coup of 1980.
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Orhan 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 patterned as a Turkish prayer rug.
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It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted...
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"For fourteen years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. In words and pictures, he writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters...
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Abril de 1901. Un barco se dirige hacia la isla de Minguer, la perla del Mediterráneo oriental. A bordo se encuentran la princesa Pakize Sultan, sobrina del sultán Abdülhamit II, y su reciente esposo, el doctor Nuri, pero también un misterioso pasajero que viaja de incógnito: el célebre inspector jefe de sanidad del Imperio otomano, encargado de confirmar los rumores de peste que han llegado hasta el continente. En las animadas calles de la...
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On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before, not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend...
14) Noce zarazy
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Liczba ofiar szybko rośnie. Ale zaraza nie jest jedynym zabójcą. Zamordowany zostaje główny inspektor sanitarny, Bonkowski Pasza, a wkrótce potem dochodzi do otrucia jego asystenta. Czy te zbrodnie mają coś wspólnego z epidemią? Śledztwo utyka w martwym punkcie, fiaskiem kończą się też próby zaprowadzenia kwarantanny i izolacji. Podzieleni i sfrustrowani mieszkańcy - Grecy i Turcy, muzułmanie i chrześcijanie - w sobie nawzajem upatrują...
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On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck, the two develop a filial bond neither has known before -- not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair come to depend on each other and exchange...
16) Chumni nochi
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Ukrainian
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"Na rubezhi XIX--KHKH stolit' stara Osmans'ka imperiya, horezvisna «khvora lyudyna Yevropy», vzhe ne spravlyayet'sya z upravlinnyam na mistsyakh. I v tsiy sytuatsiyi chuma, shcho pryyshla zi Skhodu na mal'ovnychyy seredzemnomors'kyy ostriv Minger, staye problemoyu zdebil'shoho samykh yoho zhyteliv, hubernatora ta molodoho stolychnoho epidemioloha Nuri-pashi, yakyy opynyvsya tut razom iz druzhynoyu Pakize-sultan -- ridnoyu pleminnytseyu sultana Abdul-Hamida,...
18) Biały zamek
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"Uwodzicielska, baśniowa opowieść o ludzkiej naturze. XVII wiek. Młody, wykształcony Wenecjanin zostaje pojmany przez Turków i uprowadzony do Stambułu. Tam staje się niewolnikiem doradcy sułtana, Hodży. Zawładnięty myślą o przywróceniu imperium osmańskiemu dawnej świetności. Hodża zmusza swego poddanego, aby ten przekazał mu całą posiadaną przez siebie wiedzę. Wspólnie obmyślają machinę wojenną dla sułtana i tak rozpoczyna...