ORHAN PAMUK

Orhan Pamuk fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2006. En la entrega oficial del galardón, Pamuk leyó «La maleta de mi padre», un emocionante discurso que habla de la naturaleza de la escritura, del amor a los libros y del propósito de la literatura. Acompañan a este discurso otros dos textos igualmente pronunciados con motivo de...

Inédita hasta ahora, Cevdet Bey e hijos es la primera novela del premio Nobel de literatura Orhan Pamuk. La historia comienza en 1905, a finales del reinado del sultán otomano Abdülhamit, y ofrece un maravilloso panorama de Estambul y sus gentes en un recorrido por la historia del siglo XX. Cevdet, uno de los primeros mercaderes musulmanes y com...

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the small and mysterious city of Kars near the Armenian border. The snow is falling fast as Ka arrives, and soon all roads are closed. He discovers a city plagued by a 'suicide epidemic' amongst ...

Il ventenne gentiluomo veneziano, appassionato di astronomia e matematica, el'astrologo turco si assomigliano come fossero fratelli gemelli. Si guardanocon sospetto ma per anni vivono a stretto contatto impegnati nelle piùsvariate ricerche scientifiche: studiano i fuochi d'artificio, progettanoorologi e discutono d'astronomia, biologia e ingegne...

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. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he live...