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The Black Book

The Black Book

Author(s): Orhan Pamuk

Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1980s

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Galip searches both for clues and for his own identity following the disappearance of his wife. He assumes she has gone find her first husband, Celal, a well-known newspaper columnist. Celal, too, has disappeared and Galip immerses himself into the “being” of Celal, to see if there are any clues.

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“‘A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention… It offers many pleasures, Gothic, Borgesian and other, the best of which is a vision of Istanbul as a city of sinister complexity.’ Patrick McGrath ‘Dazzling… Turns...

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