Summary
Orhan Pamuk: A New Life
"One day I read a book and my whole life changed." This is how the exciting, lyrical and magical novel by Orhan Pamuk begins, an unusual story about a young hero who, under the strong influence of the book, completely surrenders to the light that shines from its pages and begins to look for the new life that it promises him. The hero thus falls in love, interrupts his studies, leaves Istanbul and embarks on endless bus trips through remote provincial towns, where he encounters political fraud. and murders, trade organizations, spies, paranoid conspiracy theories He enters a new life through a door that on the one hand opens the secrets of a unique moment, life, death, writing and accident, and on the other, childhood, children's comics, the Angel who appears at the scene of traffic accidents, to the poetry of Dante and Rilke New life is a parable about love, literature and fanaticism and once again confirms to us that Orhan Pamuk is one of the most original creators of today.
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