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A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of My Name Is Red and The Museum of Innocence: a soaring, panoramic new novel telling the unforgettable tale of an Istanbul street vendor and the love of his life. Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karatas has fantasized ab ...Show more
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karataş is enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He becomes a street vendor, like his father, hoping to strike it rich, but luck never seems to be on Mevlut's side. He spends three years writing love letters t ...Show more
Istanbul - Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. This is a supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his ho ...Show more
Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination.
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
$29.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: good-very good
In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists goes missing and is feared murdered, their master seeks outside help.
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the twenty-ninth state of ...Show more
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the fa ...Show more
Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
"Other Colours" is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art ...Show more
Other Colours : Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk (tr from Turkish Maureen Freely)
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Other Colours" is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art ...Show more
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980. In a crumbling mansion in Cennethisar (formerly a fishing village, now a posh resort near Istanbul) the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchil ...Show more
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Never before published in English, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980. In a crumbling mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of ...Show more
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Pre-read / Used. Fair condition. "Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides, the bleak, imp ...Show more