Author: Orhan Pamuk
Translator(s)/ Edito: Maureen Freely
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 466
ISBN/UPC (if available): 057122525X
Description
Orhan Pamuk’s Hugely Acclaimed Novel in a stunning New Translation.
Galip’s wife has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celal’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. It has long been cherished by Turkish readers as the novel where Orhan Pamuk found his original voice-and now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful new translation, readers in English may encounter all its riches.
REVIEWS
An extraordinary novel, Up there with the best of Eco, Calvino, Borges and Marquez.
-Observer
Dazzling, turns the detective novel on its head.
-Independent on Sunday
A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention.
-Patrick McGrath
Contents
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE
The First Time Galip Saw Ruya
CHAPTER TWO
When the Bosphorus dries Up
CHAPTER THREE
Send Ruya Our Love
CHAPTER FOUR
Alaaddin’s Shop
CHAPTER FIVE
Perfectly Childish
CHAPTER SIX
Bedii Usta’s Children
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Letters in Mount Kaf
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Three Musketeers
CHAPTER NINE
Someone’s Following Me
CHAPTER TEN
The Eye
CHAPTER ELEVEN
We Lost Our Memories at the Movies
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Kiss
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Look Who’s Here
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
We’re All Waiting for Him
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Love Stories on a Snowy Evening
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
I must be myself
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Do You Remember Me?
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The Dar Air Shaft
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Signs of the City
PART TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY
The Ghost House
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Can’t You Sleep
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Who Killed Shams of Tabriz?
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
A Story about People Who Can’t Tell Stories
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Riddles in Faces
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
The Executioner and the Weeping Face
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
The Mystery of the Letters and the Loss of Mystery
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
A Very Long Chess Game
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
The Discovery of Mystery
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
It Seems I Was the Hero
CHAPTER THIRTY
O Brother Mine
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
In Which the Story Goes Through the Looking Glass
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
I’m Not a Madman, Just a Loyal Reader
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Mysterious Paintings
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
Not the Storyteller, but the Story
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
The Story of the Crown Prince
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
But I Who Write
TRANSLATOR’S AFTERWORD