Orhan Pamuk

La historia de amor de Kemal, un joven miembro de la burguesía de Estambul, y su pariente lejana Füsun es una extraordinaria novela sobre la pasión rayana en la obsesión....

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....

Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio Orhan Pamuk....

El Sultán ha pedido a los artistas más reputados del país un gran libro que celebre las glorias de su reino. Su tarea será iluminar esa obra al estilo europeo. Pero como el arte figurativo puede ser considerado una ofensa al Islam....

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....

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....

It is a perfect spring day in Istanbul. Kemal, a wealthy heir, is about to become engaged to the aristocratic Sibel when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shop girl....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading....

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....

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....

En las afueras del Estambul de 1985, un maestro pocero y su joven aprendiz son contratados para encontrar agua en una llanura estéril....

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....

Un día la hermosa mujer de un hombre que la quería muchísimo lo abandonó. Él empezó a buscarla. Allá donde fuera por la ciudad encontraba su rastro pero no a ella....

The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontier towns of Turkey....