false 17214986 214053 11692 1400078652 9781400078653 103 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485549m/11692.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485549s/11692.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11692.The_Black_Book 3.73 613 A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely

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. 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.

With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book 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.]]> 1728 3.55 12706 2405 1990 5 6 false Thu Apr 03 17:26:33 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 22:23:19 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 03 17:26:20 -0700 2008 more...]]>