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Obsessed with a mysterious book, Osman, a young university student, joins forces with Janan, a beautiful woman, to search for Janan's long-lost love, the elusive Mehmet, a man who understands the darker power of the book, in a metaphysical mystery by the author of The White Castle.
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In his native Turkey, author Orhan Pamuk's novel The New Life is a huge hit. Now English-language readers have an opportunity to sample this unusual book for themselves. The New Life begins with the declaration that "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed." That book leads the narrator, a young man named Osman, on a wild journey in the company of Janan, a mysterious young woman in search of her lover, Mehmet. He had actually managed to enter--and escape--the world of the book. In the course of their travels, Osman and Janan are involved in a bloody bus wreck from which they emerge with new identities; they meet several "false" Mehmets; Janan mysteriously vanishes; and Osman eventually encounters a family friend who may or may not be the author of the life-changing book and possibly of The New Life itself.
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In case you hadn't already guessed, The New Life is strictly postmodernist fare, where plot and character are minimal and time and space tend to bend and warp in unexpected ways. The author's vision is certainly original, and his descriptions of violence and Turkish culture are particularly strong.
'A head-on collision between Ballard's 'Crash' and Hesse's 'Siddhartha'. A strange, haunting novel.' -- Literary Review
'Like Borges crossed with 'The Usual Suspects' . . . You could become obsessed about this book.' -- Guardian
'Like Borges crossed with 'The Usual Suspects' . . . You could become obsessed about this book.' -- Guardian
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0374221294
- ISBN 13 9780374221294
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages296
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