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For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. He writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters and the plots of his stories. Intertwined in his writings are the vibrant paintings of the landscapes that surround and inspire him.

The New Life by Orhan Pamuk is a spiritual journey into the arid heartland of Turkey, in the name of love, literature and freedom. 'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces in pursuit of an elusive vision.

Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between "naive" poets-who write spontaneously, serenely, unselfconsciously-and "sentimental" poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to the beloved novels of his youth and ranging through the work of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul, he explores the oscillation between the naive and the reflective, and the search for an equilibrium, that lie at the center of the novelist's craft.

In der Türkei brodelt es, der Militärputsch vom 12. September 1980 wirft seine Schatten voraus. Wie jedes Jahr verbringen die Geschwister Faruk, Metin und Nilgün den Sommer am Marmarameer...

Istanbul 1591: Kara kehrt nach zwölf Jahren aus nach Istanbul zurück, um das Herz Seküres zu erobern...

Ein Mann auf der Suche nach der geliebten, grundlos verschwundenen Frau. Auch ihr Halbbruder ist unauffindbar, dessen Zeitungskolumnen erscheinen jedoch weiterhin. Ein geheimnisvoller Hinweis? Tagelang streift Galip, Orhan Pamuks Held, durch die schillernde Ober- und Unterwelt Istanbuls, begegnet Zuhältern, Derwischen, Betrügern. Pamuks Roman und Kriminalgeschichte ist wie die Stadt am Bosporus voller Labyrinthe, alles wird symbolisch. Suchend ergründet Galip die Mysterien der Stadt und der eigenen Vergangenheit.