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Other Colours: Essays and a Story
by Pamuk, Orhan
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0571236863
- ISBN 13
- 9780571236862
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2007 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces-personal, critical, and meditative- the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears. Again and again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, and commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk and dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading and writing. By turns witty, moving, playful, and provocative, Other Colors glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every radiant theme and shifting mood its precise shade in the spectrum of significance. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.433p..
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Includes index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37029
- Title
- Other Colours: Essays and a Story
- Author
- Pamuk, Orhan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0571236863
- ISBN 13
- 9780571236862
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- TURKISH LITERATURE ESSAYS BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Turkish Literature;
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