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"Night of Plague" Author: [Turkey] Orhan Pamuk Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House Original title: Veba Geceleri
"Night of Plague" Author: [Turkey] Orhan Pamuk Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House Original title: Veba Geceleri
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Introduction · · · · · ·
❉ This is a masterpiece conceived by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk for 40 years. It is an encyclopedic novel that deeply reflects on the differences between Eastern and Western cultures. It is the most worth-read foreign literary work in recent years! This suspenseful epic tells the ups and downs of the hero's struggle between the pursuit of justice and the fear of death.
❉ The fates of many characters, including the Sultan, princess, doctor, spy, prisoner, etc., are intertwined, presenting a panoramic view of the society in the late Ottoman Empire.
❉ How do we survive the disaster? When cruel death approaches us, some people will live alone, go into their hearts, write, and think about the meaning of life; others will go to the streets, looking for family and friends, hoping to get comfort from the community.
❉ The cover uses Pamuk's hand-drawn illustrations, and the book contains a hand-drawn map by the author, which carefully presents the city landscape in the novel
It is 1901, and the Ottoman Empire is in turmoil. On the island of Mingger, where foreign powers are watching covetously, spies are everywhere, gangs are fighting, and rumors are spreading, plague is spreading quietly, and murders are happening one after another.
Princess Pakze, her husband, Dr. Nuri, and her bodyguard Camille came to the island to fight the plague, and tried to find out the real culprit who killed the empire's chief pharmacist together with the local governor.
In just six months, they not only experienced an irresistible change in fate, but also inadvertently rewrote the course of history...
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The novel is intellectually ambitious, but despite its grandiose themes, its narrative voice is wry, sly, even lighthearted.
——The Guardian
A brilliant blend of rich realism and wry social commentary, Night of the Plague makes Pamuk a must-read author of all time.
——Booklist Magazine
This novel tells us that we should always question history rather than deny or bury it.
——Financial Times
Plague Night captures the spirit of our time, the never-ending clash of cultures born of ignorance and prejudice.
——Spanish "Cultural Weekly"
About the Author · · · · · ·
Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
Nobel Prize winner in Literature, one of the most outstanding novelists in contemporary Europe, was born in Istanbul, studied painting since childhood, majored in architecture in college, and later turned to literature. In 2006, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the award citation said: "In exploring the melancholy soul of his hometown, he discovered new symbols of the conflict and intersection of civilizations." His works have been translated into more than 60 languages.
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