A Novel
A literary adventure about how reading a book can change a life from a Nobel Prize Winner in Literature.
"One of the essential and enduring writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own." -
New York Times Book Review
Osman is a young university student whose life is changed by a chance encounter with a mysterious book. Osman becomes obsessed with the book, which seems to contain all the magic and power of life and love.
Romantic and elusive, Orhan Pamuk's
The New Life is a rhapsody to love and an investigation into the shadowy nature of self.
"Weird, hypnotic. . . .
The New Life
veers from intellectual conundrums in the Borges vein to rapturous lyricism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez." -
Wall Street Journal
"This enchanting book combines the vertiginous surreality of a dream, the mythic resonance of a fairy tale, the heroic adventure (in ironic version) of a comic book and the sly sleight of hand of a Borges." -
Newsday
"Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence and arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." -John Updike,
The New Yorker
Translated from the Turkish by Güneli Gün
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