Orhan Pamuk

It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus....

The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm....

Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation....

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer....

Abril de 1901. Un barco se dirige hacia la isla de Minguer, la perla del Mediterráneo oriental. A bordo se encuentran la princesa Pakize Sultan, sobrina del sultán Abdülhamit II, y su reciente esposo, el doctor Nuri, pero también un misterioso pasajero que viaja de incógnito....

After years of political exile in Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border....

Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become....

On the outskirts of a town 30 miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain....

Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished....

1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Azizye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald build of pink stone.' The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire....

Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio Orhan Pamuk....

Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life....

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise....

1901. Night draws in. The royal ship Azizye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband. Each of them holds a separate mission. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead....

La historia de amor de Kemal, un joven miembro de la burguesía de Estambul, y su pariente lejana Füsun es una extraordinaria novela sobre la pasión rayana en la obsesión....

At a family wedding Mevlut catches sight of a girl with whom he falls in love. After a secret courtship of letters passed via his cousin, she agrees to elope with him, and on a dark night the two come together for the first time.... 

From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book about consuming and writing novels....

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles....

Un joven científico indiano es capturado por piratas cuando viaja de Venecia a Nápoles. Poco después es vendido como esclavo a un sabio turco deseoso de conocer los avances científicos de Occidente. Este audiolibro narra la extraordinaria historia de estos dos hombres....