A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty.
** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
-An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling. . . a very tender evocation of Istanbul-s moment of dolce vita.- - The Guardian
-Intimate and nuanced-. A classic, spacious love story.'' - Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books
Kamal lives a life of cosmopolitan glamour, exploring the restaurants and boutiques of Istanbul with his friends and fianc-In the newly modern city, they pride themselves on their liberal attitudes and Western style.
A chance encounter with Fusun, a working-class shop-girl, begins a long, obsessive love affair, one that draws him deep into Istanbul-s complex history, and uncovers the forces of class and gender that still control its inhabitants- lives.
