The New Life a Novel
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 04/01/1998
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With this mesmerizing work of provocation and enchantment, one of Turkey's foremost writers vaults into the arena of world literature. Anyone who opens The New Life will discover a sensibility as fiendishly erudite as Nabokov's and as unnervingly prophetic as Don DeLillo's.
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The simple act of reading a book uproots Orhan Pamuk's student protagonist from his old identity and into a world of hypnotic texts and endlessly ramifying conspiracies. Within days he falls in love with the elusive Janan; witnesses an attempted assassination; and forsakes his family to become a wanderer across the Turkish steppes as he seeks out "the new life" promised by the book -- while outracing the almost certain death that pursues its readers.
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