false 54106523 2119968 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 12707 2405 1990 3 0 true Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 05:46:07 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:34:43 -0700 2009 more...]]>