THE BLACK BOOK [Signed]

Pamuk, Orhan; Freely, Maureen [Translator]

ISBN 10: 1400078652 / ISBN 13: 9781400078653

Published by Vintage Books/ Random House, Inc, New York, NY, 2006

About this Item

Octavo, xiii, 466 pages. In Very Good minus condition. White spine with black-brown lettering. Covers are warped along the fore corners, have mild shelving wear, stains on the front and rear covers, and glue on the spine head. Textblock has moderate bending wear along the tail fore corner of pages 267//268, mild wear along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Orhan Pamuk on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1392827. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1392827

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BLACK BOOK [Signed]
• Publisher: Vintage Books/ Random House, Inc, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400078652
• ISBN 13: 9781400078653
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: Uncorrected Proof.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red—a brilliantly unconventional mystery of a missing wife, and a provocative meditation on identity.

“A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention.” —The Washington Post

Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celāl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celāl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celāl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.

With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.

A Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely

About the Author

Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbul.