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    <body><![CDATA[Otro libro negro<br/><br/>Este no es el de Papini, llamado así porque está escrito en una época que el mismo Papini, calificó de negra; la de la segunda guerra mundial. Este segundo libro negro está escrito por Orhan Pamuk y son más de 600 páginas de desafiante lectura de tristeza y soledad. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18953742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book I have read by Orhan Pamuk...apparently, it is not his best known...described as a &quot;cult classic&quot; by the Times Of London...and it appears to have come into translation much later than his other works. The story is s a rather bizarre &quot;mystery&quot; focusing on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19063342">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[La memoria de Orhan Pamuk (por Cecilia Dreymuller, Diario El País, 25/01/02)<br/><br/>En Estados Unidos, donde suelen anticiparse las nuevas tendencias de nuestra deslumbrante vida moderna, advierten ahora en Internet contra la lectura de obras literarias complejas: 'Asegúrese de tener tiempo y ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39967644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to invite Pamuk into my club of favorite authors, but he's still in the waiting room. He lost me about halfway through this one. Main character Galip goes searching for his disappeared wife Ruya. But he doesn't really bother to look in any of the likely places, and he tells everyone in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75948425">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a massive achievement.  It's quite exhausting to read as the author throws stories, characters, similies at us at a very rapid rate.<br/>What is so special about it is the way he works on several levels: he brings home what it is like to be Turkish, how Istanbul is the frontier of cultures, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62134705">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pirmąją Orhano Pamuko perskaičiau anglų kalba ir likau sužavėta jo pasakojimo menu, sugebėjimu įtraukti skaitytoją į savo pasaulį. O rašytojo pasaulis – gimtasis Stambulas, jau daugelį šimtmečių žavintis savo kultūra. <br/>Juodojoje knygoje rašytojas paliečia visą mūsų pasa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36633459">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[que libro tan dificil de leer! Al principio lo empece en ingles, pero a los dos capitulos decidi empezarlo de nuevo en alguna traduccion al español, mas que nada porque siempre he leido a pamuk en español, y por alguna razon me gusta mas. Pero igual me costo trabajo! Es un libro de alguien que ama...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34182318">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely</strong><br/><br/>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<strong> </strong>Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.<br/><br/>With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, <strong>The Black Book</strong> is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have visited Turkey, but not Istanbul. It’s one of those iconic places that keeps cropping up in travel plans, but then gets overlooked, possibly because its name fits so easily into my thoughts that I convince myself I have already been there. Having just read Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30626969">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely</strong><br/><br/>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<strong> </strong>Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.<br/><br/>With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, <strong>The Black Book</strong> is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a tale of mystery and identity -- and self-identity.  Pamuk does a masterful job interweaving parallel stories.  I don't want to spoil anything, so that's all I'll say about that.  <br/><br/>As all Pamuk's work, the story is set in Istanbul.  If you've ever been there, it will be an added ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30012263">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely</strong><br/><br/>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<strong> </strong>Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.<br/><br/>With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, <strong>The Black Book</strong> is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the description this is a mystery. I suppose there is that, but it doesn't seem to be what the book is all about, so I haven't added that label. Perhaps when I get further into it that will become more dominant. I'm not sure where this tale is going, but I'm enjoying the journey. Because I've nev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26509134">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Esta novela de intriga comienza con la desaparición de Rüya, esposa y prima de Galip, un abogado que trabaja en Estambul.<br/><br/>Galip comienza entonces a buscar a Rüya por toda la ciudad, y llega a la conclusión de que debe estar en el mismo lugar que su hermanastro Celâl, también desapar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20164247">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be one of the most difficult books I have ever read for pleasure. I wasn't sure what was happening at all for the first few chapters, then I spent much of the rest of the book trying to figure out what the &quot;message&quot; of the book might be. Finally about 3/4 of the way through, I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19481510">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed My Name is Red and Snow, but I don't remember them and can't tell you what happened in them.  Orhan Pamuk reminds me of a Turkish cross between Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, although grounded in a morose reality. I am not entranced by him, but feel entrenched in the deep layers of en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14665255">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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