The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles...

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 thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Dazzling . . . Turns the detective novel on its head.' Independent on Sunday'Pamuk's masterpiece' Times Literary SupplementGalip's wife has disappeared. Could she have left him for Celál, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celál, too, seems to have vanished.As Galip...

What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the...

From one of our greatest, a panoramic new novel, his first sinceMuseum of Innocence, bringing us into Istanbul's underground through the eyes of a struggling street vendor.It is the 1990s in Istanbul, and although there were once thousands of boza vendors walking the frozen...

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and...

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ‘A declaration of love.’ Sunday Times‘A fascinating read for anyone who has even the slightest acquaintance with this fabled bridge between east and west.’ The Economist‘An irresistibly seductive book’ Jan Morris, Guardian In a surprising and original blend of personal...