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Publisher's Summary
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.
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. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before - not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other and exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world. But in the nearby town where they buy provisions and take their evening break, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre company, catches his eye and seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. The young man's wildest dream will be realized, but, when in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well digger, the boy will flee, returning to Istanbul. Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master's death and who the redheaded enchantress was.
A beguiling mystery tale of family and romance, of East and West, tradition and modernity, by one of the great storytellers of our time.
Translated from Turkish by Ekin Oklap.
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- T. Conrad
- 10-25-17
Drags On
Not my first time to start a book and have to force myself to stick with it; give it a chance to develop - there’s surely a story somewhere unfolding. But with this book I finally gave up and started jumping chapters. For one thing it took so long for the encounter with the red haired woman to take place! After it did take place I jumped a head a few chapters and didn’t feel like I could’ve missed anything necessary to the story in those unread pages. Finally, when the end was near the story made sense - the bad news is this was disappointing because it was nothing new or different. Very much an “it’s been done” plot twist - and I use the term lightly. This is the first Audible book I kept falling asleep listening to. That was ok.
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- rg
- 08-31-17
a masterpiece
outstanding story plot driven from both Easter & western mythology . modern tragedy written as amazing facets
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- Piedmont65
- 11-24-22
Interesting and well read story
Enjoyed this well thought out and written tale that speaks to ancient stories that have gone before it.
At some point I felt how it would end and sadness hung over me although it ended in a way that was fitting to the story. Would definitely recommend as Pamuk is a master storyteller!
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-15-20
Immaturely-developed plot and dialogue
Don’t waste your time. I can’t believe this was written by a Noble Laureate. Poorly written
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- Anonymous User
- 11-27-19
Great intro to Pamuk!
Orhan Pamuk is one of those writers that every book lover has on their list but it can be a little bit daunting to single out one book to start with! I recommend this story as a wonderful jumping off point. The story is told from both male and female narrators and the production cast both the voices brilliantly! 5/5 😃
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5 out of 5 stars
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A captivating adventure through place & self
- By Andrea Cull on 10-18-22
By: Orhan Pamuk
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The Museum of Innocence
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 310
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4 out of 5 stars 231
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. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie - a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best I've ever heard
- By Rebecca Lindroos on 03-06-10
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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Nights of Plague
- A Novel
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap - translator
- Narrated by: Amira Ghazalla
- Length: 29 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives—brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria—the island revolts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst book ever!
- By Nicole Wickenhiser on 03-18-23
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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The Black Book
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely - translator
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pamuk read by John Lee....
- By Murasaki on 05-26-18
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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My Name Is Red
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar - translator
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 544
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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Story4 out of 5 stars 410
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of 16th-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and interesting
- By Kathleen on 05-13-10
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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Istanbul
- Memories and the City
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 203
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Story4 out of 5 stars 174
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy - or hüzün - that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible pronunciation
- By K. Jaynes on 02-25-18
By: Orhan Pamuk
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The White Castle
- A Novel
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja - "master" - a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A captivating adventure through place & self
- By Andrea Cull on 10-18-22
By: Orhan Pamuk
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The Museum of Innocence
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 310
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4 out of 5 stars 231
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. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie - a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best I've ever heard
- By Rebecca Lindroos on 03-06-10
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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4 out of 5 stars
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Glad we are finally hearing from this culture
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Moon Palace
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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4 out of 5 stars
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I don't get it, I thoroughly enjoy it though.
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- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 941
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 842
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
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By: Hisham Matar
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- A Novel
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- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 495
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Story4 out of 5 stars 449
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5 out of 5 stars
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By: Salman Rushdie
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- By: Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald - translator
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 577
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 572
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memoir or fiction, either way it's enthralling.
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By: Philippe Besson, and others
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- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 310
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4 out of 5 stars 231
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one of the very best I've ever heard
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4 out of 5 stars
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Glad we are finally hearing from this culture
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.
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I don't get it, I thoroughly enjoy it though.
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By: Paul Auster
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 941
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 842
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again.
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