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• A View of the Bosporus

  ORHAN PAMUK takes the pundit’s dry talk of a “clash of civilizations” and gives it a human face, turns it on its head and sends it spinning wildly. In his early novel “The White Castle,” a Venetian slave and his Ottoman master swap clothes, exchange ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

• Locked in the Writer’s Room

  It is an irony that the reputation of Orhan Pamuk should rest as much on his political prominence as on his books. The Turkish Nobel laureate is the most private and recondite of writers. For over thirty years he has occupied a lonely apartment in Is ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  "What does the happiest man in the world want most? He wants, of course, to carry on being the most happiest man in the world.
  This is why he knows how important it is to do the same things every time. And that's what we do, always the same things." pp.034

  "first there's a world she ente ... (continue)

  "What does the happiest man in the world want most? He wants, of course, to carry on being the most happiest man in the world.
  This is why he knows how important it is to do the same things every time. And that's what we do, always the same things." pp.034

  "first there's a world she enters and explores everyday, and then there's a world we two share. when i watch her, and she turns around and watch me, we keep our world going. but then she breaks into a run and enters a new life where my eyes cannot go." pp.041

  "as with all intimate relationships, ours is a power struggle. who will decide: (a) which channel to watch on television; (b) what time is bed time;
  (c) what game will be played or not played, and how this decision, and many other similar decisions, discussions, disputes, tricks, sweet deceptions, bouts of tears, rebulks, sulks, reconciliations, and acts of contrition will be resolved after long political negotiations. all this effort makes us tired and happy, but in the end it accumulates and becomes the history of the relationship, the friendship. you come to an understanding because you're not going
  to give up on each other. you think about each other, and when you're parted you remember each other's smell. when she's gone i miss her smell of her hair terribly. when i'm gone, she smells my pajamas." pp.042

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  "one day I'll write a book that's made only from fragments too" This is that book, set inside a frame to suggest a center that I have tried to hide : I hope that readers enjoy imagining that center into being. O. Pamuk

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  Angela said on May 26, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 0307370828
• ISBN-13: 9780307370822
• Publisher: Vintage Canada
• Pub date: Oct 22, 2010
• Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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