Orhan Pamuk

The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm....

After years of political exile in Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border....

Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation....

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer....

On the outskirts of a town 30 miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain....

En mitad de una tormenta de nieve, Ka, un periodista turco recién llegado de un largo exilio político en Alemania, se desplaza a la remota ciudad de Kars, al nordeste de Turquía. Lo que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo....

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise....

Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become....

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....

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....