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Şemsa Gezgin

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    Snow
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    Other Colours
    • Other Colours

      Writings on Life, Art, Books and Cities

      • 433 strony
      • 16 godzin czytania

      In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.

      Other Colours2008
      4,0
    • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything else.

      Snow2007
      3,6
    • Stambuł

      Wspomnienia i miasto

      • 477 stron
      • 17 godzin czytania

      Przesycony melancholią przewodnik po jednym z najpiękniejszych miast na świecie, a zarazem wspaniała autobiograficzna opowieść o pisarzu i jego rodzinie.

      Stambuł2006
      3,8
    • Nazywam się Czerwień

      • 592 strony
      • 21 godzin czytania

      W szesnastowiecznym Stambule grupa najwyśmienitszych artystów ma zrealizować zlecenie sułtana: stworzyć utrzymaną w nowoczesnym zachodnim stylu księgę upamiętniającą jego wielkość i chwałę. Księgę mają zdobić barwne miniatury. Ale sztuka figuratywna jest zakazana w religii muzułmańskiej. Zlecenie i jego wykonawcy są zatem w poważnym niebezpieczeństwie. Należy utrzymać je jak najdłużej utrzymać w tajemnicy. Jeden z zatrudnionych mistrzów zostaje zamordowany...

      Nazywam się Czerwień2005
      3,7