The black book
By: Orhan Pamuk ; translated by Maureen Freely
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780571225255
Subjects: Missing persons; Legal stories; Investigation; Fiction
Work titles: Kara Kitap
Description: Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely's beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.--Publisher description.
Notes: This translation originally published: U.S.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; London: Faber, 1994.

Translated from the Turkish.