From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel??part murder mystery, part love story??set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul. When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of […]
From the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red,his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. It is 1975 in Istanbul. Kemal, thirty, from an upperclass family, is engaged to a girl of like background when by chance he encounters a long-lost relation: F?¬sun is a shopgirl, an eighteen-year-old beauty who stirs […]
The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. Theres a suicide epidemic amongst young […]
Guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul – the city of the authors birth and the home of his imagination. This is an account of one mans love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth.