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The Black Book 
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 | Galip starts looking for his missing wife Rüya (means Dream in Turkish) and at the end he loses himself as well...
In his search, he finds himself in a mystical world, guided by the newspaper articles written by his brother-in-law Jelal. In this magical trip his road crosses many times with gansters, executioners, dictators, photographers, retired soldiers, grocers, Jelalettin Rumi and other strange bunch of people you cannot even dream of in such a book. It is amazing diversity of characters collected in one volume. The only other books I know which can do this are encyclopedias. This is the most complex book I have ever read. First time I have read this book was four years ago. Then I read some books about mystisizim, philosophy and literature and then re-read this book last summer. I realised how much I have missed in the first reading. Then I read a whole book consisting essays about this book and then I saw that I missed more than half of the hidden connections in the second pass as well. If you are planning to go for this book : BEWARE. YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FINISH IT. It is a very famous book in Turkey and only one out of ten readers finish it. (My own statistics from my own friends. I know nine other guys who skipped the book after reading one or two chapters.) P.S. My review is based on the Turkish version but I have bought and examined the English version as well. Good translation. |
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The New Life 
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 | "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.". This is the opening sentence of the book.
A university student reads a book called "The New Life" and leaves everything behind to look for the new life promised in the book. He is accompanied by an "angel" in this journey. He and Angel try to solve the mystery of new life in a magical world of intercity buses, traffic accidents, sugar candies, children books, Zenith watches, shaving soaps, secret meetings and other unusual items and places. A remarkable work from Pamuk. However, for those who do not know lifestyle of Turkish people (outside holiday resorts), scenes may be very hard to visualise. But still, I believe a serious novel reader can enjoy every line.
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The White Castle
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 | This book describes a different master slave relationship. An Italian is captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Istanbul. This capable slave with good knowledge of current science and technology (!!) is bought by an intellectual Turkish guy with a lot of interest in those subjects.
Read carefully. Try to figure out who is master and who is slave. Unlike other Pamuk books, this one is easy to read and reletively easy to understand.
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