In this historical mystery set in the 16th century, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk creates a world populated by poets and artists who argue about the direction art seems to be taking (toward the use of perspective, and away from tradition...

From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red (“a sumptuous thriller”–John Updike; “chockful of sublimity and sin”–New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–f...

From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red (“a sumptuous thriller”–John Updike; “chockful of sublimity and sin”–New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–f...

It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once...

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 h...

Galip is a lawyer in Istanbul. When his wife R'ya disappears, along with her half-brother Jelal (a journalist with a murky political past), Galip makes a desperate attempt to trace her. Alongside the action-filled narrative of Galip's...

Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a...

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 sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of...

An intriguing literary portrait of one of the world's most complex and diverse cities by the renowned author of My Name Is Red interweaves the history of Istanbul with observations and reflections on the city's landmarks, art, people,...