Pamuk, Orhan Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely (5 results)

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xi, 535 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 433pp., xi. Stated "First Edition" with '1' in number line. Dark blue boards with brilliant gilt lettering on spine; beveled fore-edge. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($34.95) with full front cover coarse-grained black and white photo- illustration of urban street at night, man walking away from reader toward minarets in distance; glossy turquoise, red, orange and olive boxes of color for white letters for title, subtitle, author and Nobel Prize recognition for author. Tiny tip wear at top right front cover corner, else flawless copy. Still, gift-giving quality. (No previous owner names.).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Robert C. Olsson (Book Desisgn); John Gall (Cover Design); © VEER Gildo Spadoni/Photonica/Getty Images (Cover Photo); Jerry Bauer (Author Photo) (illustrator). 1st Vintage International Edition: July. 384 + xii + pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Two pin holes on cover. Synopsis: Turkish novelist Pamuk (Snow) presents a breathtaking portrait of a city, an elegy for a dead civilization and a meditation on life's complicated intimacies. The author, born in 1952 into a rapidly fading bourgeois family in Istanbul, spins a masterful tale, moving from his fractured extended family, all living in a communal apartment building, out into the city and encompassing the entire Ottoman Empire. Pamuk sees the slow collapse of the once powerful empire hanging like a pall over the city and its citizens. Central to many Istanbul residents' character is the concept of hüzün (melancholy). Istanbul's hüzün, Pamuk writes, "is a way of looking at life that. is ultimately as life affirming as it is negating." His world apparently in permanent decline, Pamuk revels in the darkness and decay manifest around him. He minutely describes horrific accidents on the Bosphorus Strait and his own recurring fantasies of murder and mayhem. Throughout, Pamuk details the breakdown of his family: elders die, his parents fight and grow apart, and he must find his way in the world. This is a powerful, sometimes disturbing literary journey through the soul of a great city told by one of its great writers. 206 photos.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. ENGROSSING: SUMPTUOUS: THRILLING: SUBLIME: SPELLBINDING: ILLUMINATING: COMPREHENSIVE: BRILLIANT: NEW First American Edition hardcover (Orig. 2009) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $26.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf corner BUT w/ all inside corners neatly clipped 0.25" on the diagonal * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.42", 0.80 kg, xii+426+viii (558) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From the acclaimed author of "My Name Is Red" ("a SUMPTUOUS thriller" -John Updike. "chockful of sublimity & sin" -NYTBR) comes a SPELLBINDING tale of disparate yearnings--for love, art, power, & God?-set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity--a frozen sea these many years?-leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border & the epicenter of the suicides. No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman & then Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty & paralysis, there is also Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka's youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town & seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka's frame of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong toward the unknowable Ipek & the desperate hope for love?-or at least a wife-?that she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to restrain the local Islamist radicals, & even toward God, whose existence Ka has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of emotion & spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until the snows have melted & the political violence has run its bloody course will Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness. Blending profound sympathy & mischievous wit, "Snow" illuminates the contradictions gripping the individual & collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance & comprehension of the needs & duties. HIGH PRAISE for "SNOW" : "Not only an ENGROSSING feat of tale-spinning, but ESSENTIAL reading for our times. "Snow" is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes & in the nature of the repression & rage & conspiracies & violence it depicts." -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR "Powerful. Astonishingly timely. A deft melding of political intrigue & philosophy, romance & noir." -Megan O'Grady, Vogue * ABOUT ORHAN PAMUK: ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel "My Name Is Red" won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. "PAMUK has made his native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin, or Proust's Paris--a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own." -from the Nobel Presentation Speech. * HIGH PRAISE FOR ORPAN PAMUK: "Essential reading for our times: In Turkey, Pamuk is the equivalent of a rock star, guru, diagnostic specialist, & potential pundit. The Turkish public reads his novels as if taking its own pulse. -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR. "Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence & arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." -John Updike, The New Yorker. "Pamuk's is an astonishing achievement." -TLS (London).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and bright. "Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the author of novels including Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind, and The Red-Haired Woman. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018." (from Wikipedia).