The Black Book

ORHAN PAMUK'S HUGELT ACCLAIMED NOVEL I N A STUNNTNGNFW TRANSLATION-- Galips wifc has disappeared. Could she have left him fbr her ex-h«sband, Celâl, a popular newspaper colımmist? But Celâl, too, seeras to have vanİshed. As Galip i nvestigates, he fînds hirnself assunıİng the enviable Celal's identity, wearing his clothes, answcring his phone caîls, even writing his coluınns. Galip pursues cvery conceivable cİue, but the nature of tht mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. Wİth its cascadc of bcgu'ıling stories about istanbul, Tbe Black Book is a briUianriy unconventİonal myster)'. it has tong been cherished by Turkish readcrs as the novel wlıere Orhan Panmk fbund his original voice. and now, in Maııreen Freely's beautiful new translation, readers in EngÜsh may encounter aD its riches.