Bøger af Orhan Pamuk

Stor og spraglet roman i mesterklasse af den tyrkiske nobelprismodtager og forfatter Orhan Pamuk. DETTE FREMMEDE I MIG fortæller om gadesælgeren Mevlut, som lever det meste af sit liv i Istanbuls gader. Vi hører om hans families omtumlede tilværelse, hans kærlighedsliv, som starter temmelig katastrofalt, og om de dramatiske omvæltninger, der finder sted omkring ham. Mevluts skæbne og eventyrlige liv fra 1950''erne til nutiden knytter sig tæt til Tyrkiets historie, og romanen bliver også en kærlighedserklæring til Istanbul - byen hvor øst møder vest.

Den unge apotekersøn og forfatterspire Cem har fået et sommerferiejob uden for Istanbul. Han skal gå til hånde hos en brøndgraver. Som brønden bliver dybere, vokser et særligt venskab frem mellem mester og lærling. Cems far, som var politisk aktiv på venstrefløjen, har forladt familien, og Cem finder en faderfigur i brøndgraveren. Men en smuk rødhåret kvinde, der er på turné med et omrejsende teater i den nærliggende by, vækker lidenskaben i Cem. Og pludselig tager historien en skæbnesvanger drejning. Mange år senere vender Cem tilbage til egnen, hvor han tilbragte den skelsættende sommer. Oplevelserne har forfulgt ham hele livet, men nu opdager han, at virkeligheden er en helt anden, end han har fortalt sig selv. Orhan Pamuk har skrevet en moderne fabel om kærlighed og svigt, fædre og sønner og fortællingens magi.

Hr. Cevdet og hans sønner er en familiesaga, som spænder over tre generationer i Istanbul i det 20. århundrede. Ved romanens start i 1905 møder vi den senere familiepatriark Hr. Cevdet, som stædigt arbejder sig op og bliver en rig forretningsmand. Sammen med sin hustru, der er datter af en velhavende og indflydelsesrig pasa, flytter han ind i det hus i Nisantasi-kvarteret, der skal blive ramme om familiens liv og vidne til nøglebegivenheder i byens historie. Gennem romanen følger vi den dramatiske overgang fra en traditionel osmannisk familieform til en mere vestlig livsstil. Sønnen Refik drømmer om at blive digter og europæer og fjerner sig mere og mere fra Koranens verdensopfattelse – og fra sin egen far. For barnebarnet Ahmet står der politik og kunst på dagsordenen i starten af 1970'erne. Hr. Cevdet og hans sønner er en slægtsroman fuld af liv, humor, politik, kærlighed og kunst. Den tyrkiske Nobelprismodtager Orhan Pamuk debuterede i 1982 med Hr. Cevdet og hans sønner, som både er inspireret af en europæisk romantradition og af forfatterens egen familiehistorie. Romanen foreligger nu for første gang på dansk.

En mørk nat i år 1901 lægger et skib til på den lille, idylliske ø Mingheria mellem Kreta og Cypern. To personer går i land: kemikeren Bonkowski og hans assistent, doktor Ilias. De er sendt dertil af sultanen for det osmanniske rige for at stoppe et pestudbrud, men da de bliver taget imod af øens guvernør, Sami pasa, får de at vide, at der under ingen omstændigheder er sygdom på hans ø. Det går hurtigt op for dem, at de er sendt på en mission, der bliver både sværere og farligere at udføre, end de først troede.Som sygdommen spreder sig på øen, gør også konflikterne, og spændingerne mellem øens kristne og muslimske befolkningsgrupper tager til og tegner skarpe linjer mellem dem, der støtter karantænen, og dem, der benægter selve sygdommens eksistens. Snart vil verdens øjne vende sig mod denne smukke ø, hvor fremtiden for det allerede vaklende osmanniske imperium står på spil."Pestnætter" er en vildtvoksende fortælling om lidenskab, frygt, magt og national identitet fra en af vor tids største historiefortællere. Det er en roman om en pandemis hærgen og dens fatale konsekvenser for både menneskeskæbner og magtbalancen mellem verdens kontinenter.

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul, in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy-or h,z,n- that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost Ottoman Empire. As he companionably guides us across the Bosphorus, through Istanbul's historical monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, he also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers. Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

Studenten Osman må ændre sit liv, da han læser en magisk, lokkende bog. Det bliver en rejse gennem tyrkisk historie og kultur, med udløbere til sammenstødene med de europæiske og orientalske forbindelser.

Andre farver rummer en række essays fra de seneste 25 år samt en enkelt fortælling. Samlingen spænder fra lyrisk-selvbiografiske tekster til essays om litteratur, arkitektur og kultur, fra humor til politisk analyse, fra sarte stemningsbilleder til provokerende diskussioner om østlig og vestlig kunst. Orhan Pamuk fortæller om sin første rejse til Europa, sin fars død og jordskælvet i Istanbul, om kærligheden til forfattere som Dostojevskij, Nabokov og Laurence Sterne, om at bo i Istanbul og New York og om arbejdet med sine romaner. ANDRE FARVER er Orhan Pamuks første udgivelse, siden han modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur i 2006, og med den giver en af vor tids største fortællere og intellektuelle sit syn på livet, kunsten og litteraturen.

Den italienske jeg-fortæller sælges som slave i 1600-tallets Istanbul. Hans fysiske dobbeltgænger køber ham, og i en atmosfære af videnskab, astrologi og drømmetydning finder de en fælles identitet.

I en lille tyrkisk landsby, der er øde om vinteren og invaderet af turister om sommeren, ligger et forfaldent hus. Her passer en dværg en meget gammel dame, der tilbringer sin tid med at genkalde sig sin ungdom og gentage sine beskyldninger. De lever side om side i tavshed om de hemmeligheder, de deler, i had og ensomhed.

SNE er Orhan Pamuks femte roman. Efter tolv år i politisk eksil i Tyskland vender digteren Ka hjem til sin mors begravelse i Istanbul. Han tager senere imod tilbuddet om at rapportere om kommunalvalget i Kars nær den russiske grænse. Her mærker han en meget spændt stemning mellem politiske islamister og det vestligt orienterede tyrkiske militær. Gennem tre dage følger vi et militærkup, mens vi gradvis erfarer den egentlige sandhed om digteren og den gamle by Kars' snedækkede tage.

Essays om romankunstens inderste væsen: Hvad sker der i vores sind, når vi læser? Hvordan skaber romanen sine særlige sanseindtryk i fht. andre kunstarter? Pamuk besvarer spørgsmålene ved at læse sin ungdoms elskede forfattere Tolstoj, Dostojevskij, Flaubert og Proust.

It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find water in a barren land. This is the tale of their struggle, but it is also a deeper investigation - through stories and images - into themes such as: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing.

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Fusun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance. Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul. 'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times

The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric and Rabelaisian in scope, it is a labyrinthine novel suffused with the sights, sounds and scents of Istanbul, an unforgettable evocation of the city where East meets West, and a boldly unconventional mystery that plumbs the elusive nature of identity, fiction, interpretation and reality.

Pamuks hidtil mest farverige roman. En spændende historie fyldt med humor, ironi og fortællertekniske finesser. Handlingen, der er en mordgåde indflettet i en kærlighedshistorie, udspilles i Istanbul i løbet af ni vinterdage i 1591. Den foregår i et bogillustratormiljø i en tid, hvor bøger stadig blev skrevet i hånden af kalligrafer og illustreret af billedkunstnere. Istanbul i slutningen af 1500-tallet afslører konflikten mellem det traditionelle islamiske og det sækulariserede vestlige livssyn både inden for malerkunsten og i hele verdensopfattelsen.

Die vorherrschende Farbe in Orhan Pamuks neuem Fotobuch ist Orange. Wenn der Literaturnobelpreisträger die tägliche Schreibarbeit beendet hat, nimmt er seine Kamera und durchstreift die verschiedenen Viertel seiner Heimatstadt Istanbul. Häufig erkundet er die abgelegenen Gassen, in die sich keine Touristen verirren, Orte, die vernachlässigt und vergessen scheinen, in ein ganz bestimmtes Licht getaucht. Es ist das orange Licht von Straßenlampen und aus Häusern, das Orhan Pamuk so gut aus seiner Kindheit in Istanbul kennt. Doch das vertraute, warme Licht verschwindet. Moderne, billige Leuchtmittel haben Einzug gehalten und nachts leuchtet es zu- nehmend eisig-weiß aus den Fenstern. Die Lichter der Nacht haben sich so schleichend und beinahe unmerklich verändert wie die sozialen Strukturen der ganzen Stadt. Über Jahrzehnte hat Orhan Pamuk die nächtliche Stadtlandschaft fotografiert und so in seinen Bildern ein Istanbul bewahrt, das allmählich verschwindet.

A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get demolished and re-built, and he sees migrants from Anatolia making a fortune; at the same time, he witnesses all of the transformative moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is. What matters more in love: what we wish for, or what our fate has in store? Do our choices dictate whether we will be happy or not, or are these things determined by forces beyond our control? A Strangeness In My Mind tries to answer these questions while portraying the tensions between urban life and family life, and the fury and helplessness of women inside their homes.

Snow begins in the year 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times

"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives-brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca, or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria-the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island-an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh H, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And the sultan's expert is murdered. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island's governor and local administration and the people's refusal to respect the bans dooms the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingeria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago with themes that feel remarkably contemporary"--]cProvided by publisher.

The epic historical murder mystery, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1901, Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe. There are rumours of plague - rumours some in power will try to suppress. Plague is not the only killer. The future of a fragile empire is at stake, in a rich and epic mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder.

«No solo constituye una fascinante proeza narrativa, es una lectura esencial para entender el mundo de hoy».-Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review. En mitad de una tormenta de nieve, Ka, un periodista turco recién llegado de una larga estancia en Alemania, se desplaza a una remota ciudad en el nordeste de Turquía. Tras el asesinato de su alcalde, Kars se ha convertido en un auténtico polvorín donde las inminentes elecciones municipales, el temor al terrorismo kurdo y una oleada de suicidios mantienen a la población en vilo. Cuando la tormenta se recrudezca y la nieve impida las comunicaciones con el exterior, el peligro de que la tensión estalle alcanzará cotas inimaginables.

Edición especial y definitiva de la gran obra del Premio Nobel de Literatura Orhan Pamuk, ampliada con 250 nuevas fotografías y una nueva introducción. Estambul. Ciudad y recuerdos es sin duda el libro más célebre de Orhan Pamuk. Su publicación en lengua española en 2006 y la obtención del Premio Nobel ese mismo año colocaron al autor en primera línea del panorama narrativo internacional, convirtiéndose en el gran referente de la literatura turca. El autor nació en Estambul y aún hoy sigue viviendo en el mismo apartamento familiar. El retrato de esta ciudad asentada en las ruinas de un imperio perdido, con sus decrépitas mansiones con vistas al Bósforo, así como de la familia de Pamuk y de los escritores y artistas que dieron forma a la percepción de la metrópoli, es a su vez un autorretrato refractado por el hüzün, la «melancolía turca» que comparte con sus conciudadanos, y por su propia memoria.Desde la publicación original de la obra, Orhan Pamuk ha seguido ampliando su colección de fotografías de Estambul, seleccionando más de doscientas imágenes adicionales, provenientes de sus archivos familiares, de coleccionistas especializados en la ciudad y de fotógrafos como Ara Güler o Henri Cartier-Bresson, para incluirlas en esta nueva edición definitiva que además incorpora una introducción inédita. Como el Dublín de Joyce y el Buenos Aires de Borges, el Estambul de Pamuk es un victorioso y conmovedor encuentro entre un lugar y la sensibilidad de un gran autor de nuestro tiempo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy-or hüzün- that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters-both Turkish and foreign-who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.

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 on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--"master"--a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination. Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook.