Lead Review

  • Book: The Black Book
  • Location: Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Author: Orhan Pamuk

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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 the detective novel on its head.’ Joan Smith, Independent on Sunday”
Pamuk’s evocation of Istanbul in the repressive mid-1980s – a crumbling, fearful city of dreams – is masterful. (Avid Traveller)

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