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From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, and author of My Name is Red and Istanbul, comes a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value. His original pieces have been sympathetically revisited by the author, and the result is a new work of great narrative richness and intensity. Other Colours ranges from lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art.
Reflections on Pamuk's first passport, his first trip to Europe, his father's death, his political views, his recent court case, and the Istanbul earthquake share space with a collection of pieces on writers as various as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Nabokov and Mario Vargas Llosa. There are sections on Istanbul, New York - where Pamuk lived for two years - and on the writing of each of his novels. Interspersed among these are some of Pamuk's own illustrated works of art, and a short story 'Looking Out the Window'.
My Father's Suitcase, Pamuk's 2006 Nobel Lecture, a brilliant illumination of what it means to be a writer, completes the selection from one of literature's most eminent and popular figures.
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"Pamuk is that rarest of creatures, a fabulist of ideas...In "Other Colors,.".Pamuk gives us several of his many selves in a centrifugal gathering of memory-pieces, sketches, interviews and unexpected flights...[that] feel more like a rich and suggestive set of explorations...His books are, really celebrations of multiplicity...the mysteries they set up are always more delicious than any attempt to solve them...Yet mostly what this collection gives us...is a chance to savor one of the inimitable literary storytellers of our time...Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive."- Pico Iyer, "New York Times Book Review" "He is the poet of the labyrinth of his own thoughts and conceits, of the fabulous and the gently ambiguous."- Colin Thubron, "The New York Review" "what emerges...is a voice, part playful and part deadly, whose refracted reality a real nightingale might envy."- Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" ""Other Colors" is composed of shrewdly arranged occasional pieces, fragments from journals and other miscellany, edited and at times rewritten to form a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man...Beyond its clever charm and its wise observations "Other Colors" is a plea to stand back and consider the historical and psychological causes of today's alarming headlines."- Roger Kaplan, "Washington Post Book World" "From the Hardcover edition."
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Other Colours is a collection of the best pieces from twenty years of writing from Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0571236863
- ISBN 13 9780571236862
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages448
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st UK Edition. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces-personal, critical, and meditative- the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears. Again and again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, and commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk and dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading and writing. By turns witty, moving, playful, and provocative, Other Colors glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every radiant theme and shifting mood its precise shade in the spectrum of significance. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.433p. Book. Seller Inventory # 37029
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Signed by the Author and the Translator on the title page.Signed by Orhan Pamuk at the Pittville Pump Room in 2017 and by Maureen Freely at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October 2017. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 008121
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