pamuk orhan translated maureen freely (19 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: USED_FINE. xii, 384 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become 'modern' at the crossroads of East and West. Against a background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he charts the evolution of a rich imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous writer he was to become. / Orhan Pamuk's work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Istanbul.- Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_ASNEW. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 433pp., xi. Stated "First Edition" with '1' in number line. Dark blue boards with brilliant gilt lettering on spine; beveled fore-edge. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($34.95) with full front cover coarse-grained black and white photo- illustration of urban street at night, man walking away from reader toward minarets in distance; glossy turquoise, red, orange and olive boxes of color for white letters for title, subtitle, author and Nobel Prize recognition for author. Tiny tip wear at top right front cover corner, else flawless copy. Still, gift-giving quality. (No previous owner names.).

Wrappers. Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. Uncorrected Proof. Moderate wear, some curling to covers, a stray mark on fore-edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: NEW. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. ENGROSSING: SUMPTUOUS: THRILLING: SUBLIME: SPELLBINDING: ILLUMINATING: COMPREHENSIVE: BRILLIANT: NEW First American Edition hardcover (Orig. 2009) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $26.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf corner BUT w/ all inside corners neatly clipped 0.25" on the diagonal * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.42", 0.80 kg, xii+426+viii (558) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From the acclaimed author of "My Name Is Red" ("a SUMPTUOUS thriller" -John Updike. "chockful of sublimity & sin" -NYTBR) comes a SPELLBINDING tale of disparate yearnings--for love, art, power, & God?-set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity--a frozen sea these many years?-leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border & the epicenter of the suicides. No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman & then Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty & paralysis, there is also Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka's youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town & seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka's frame of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong toward the unknowable Ipek & the desperate hope for love?-or at least a wife-?that she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to restrain the local Islamist radicals, & even toward God, whose existence Ka has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of emotion & spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until the snows have melted & the political violence has run its bloody course will Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness. Blending profound sympathy & mischievous wit, "Snow" illuminates the contradictions gripping the individual & collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance & comprehension of the needs & duties. HIGH PRAISE for "SNOW" : "Not only an ENGROSSING feat of tale-spinning, but ESSENTIAL reading for our times. "Snow" is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes & in the nature of the repression & rage & conspiracies & violence it depicts." -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR "Powerful. Astonishingly timely. A deft melding of political intrigue & philosophy, romance & noir." -Megan O'Grady, Vogue * ABOUT ORHAN PAMUK: ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel "My Name Is Red" won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. "PAMUK has made his native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin, or Proust's Paris--a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own." -from the Nobel Presentation Speech. * HIGH PRAISE FOR ORPAN PAMUK: "Essential reading for our times: In Turkey, Pamuk is the equivalent of a rock star, guru, diagnostic specialist, & potential pundit. The Turkish public reads his novels as if taking its own pulse. -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR. "Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence & arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." -John Updike, The New Yorker. "Pamuk's is an astonishing achievement." -TLS (London).

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. xi, 433 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Translated from the Turkish. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, no dedication. Stated First United States Edition. Dust jacket, with faded yellow panels, protected in a mylar book cover. "Orhan Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces--=personal, critical, and meditative--the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughters precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears. Again and again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, and commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk and dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading and writing. By turns witty, moving, playful, and provocative, Other Colors glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every radiant theme and shifting mood--its precise shade--in the spectrum of significance. / Orhan Pamuk is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He lives in Istanbul." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and bright. "Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the author of novels including Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind, and The Red-Haired Woman. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018." (from Wikipedia).

Condizione: UNSPECIFIED. 240x160: xii,434pp. index. Textured papered boards (Hardback) in dust jacket, Very Good/Very Good, fore-edge untrimmed. ISBN: 9780 307 26675 0 , Weight: 840g. .

Soft cover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st simultaneous softcover edition, in glossy DJ. Book and jacket show only a touch of shelfwear. Autographed by Pamuk on title page. 436 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condizione: USED_VERYGOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print (number line on copyright page 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Paperback copy, matching unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 436pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (53/1).

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 433 pages. Published in 2007. The author's debut collection of essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Orhan Pamuk's "Other Colors" in a felicitous English translation. His first book since winning the Nobel Prize: A masterly collection of his personal ("familiar") and literary essays in one rich and comprehensive volume. "Pamuk is that rarest of creatures, a fabulist of ideas. Gives us several of his many selves in a centrifugal gathering of memory-pieces, sketches, interviews, and unexpected flights that feel more like a rich and suggestive set of explorations. His books are celebrations of multiplicity. The mysteries they set up are always more delicious than any attempt to solve them. Yet mostly what this collection gives us is a chance to savor one of the inimitable literary storytellers of our time. Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive" (Pico Iyer). His most passionate critic/admirer in America, the late great novelist John Updike, chose "Snow" as the best novel of the year 2004, bar none. An absolute "must-have" title for Orhan Pamuk collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black pen on the half-title page (his preferred page for this book) by Orhan Pamuk. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed and publication-year dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003 for "My Name Is Red". Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, the first Turkish writer to be so deservedly honored. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ORHAN PAMUK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0307266753. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover price clipped. Stated first American edition.

Paperback. Condizione: USED_FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First British Edition. The true first English edition. Signed by the author on the title page.A fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. A paperback original with dust jacket. There was a very small hardcover printing. Slight browning to the page edges. The story of a journalist who returns to Turkey and is assigned to write an investigative piece on a series of suicides in a town near the Armenian border. This book caused a sensation when published in Turkey. Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condizione: USED_FINE. Translated by Maureen Freely (illustratore). 1st Edition. Signed by both Orhan Pamuk & Maureen Freely to the title page. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Uncorrected proof copy in fine, unread condition. All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition / First printing. Signed on the title page by Orhan Pamuk. Navy paper-covered boards. xi, 433 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pamuk was the 2006 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 384 pages. Published in 2005. The author's valentine-memoir on subject. One of Orhan Pamuk's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Orhan Pamuk's "Istanbul: Memories And The City" in a felicitous English translation. An evocative portrait of a great and storied city, an elegy for a bygone civilization, and a meditation on the "complicated intimacies" (Pamuk's phrase) of life itself. "Spins a masterful tale, moving from his fractured extended family, all living in a communal apartment building, out into the city and encompassing the entire Ottoman Empire. Pamuk sees the slow collapse of the once powerful empire hanging like a pall over the city and its citizens. Central to many Istanbul residents' character is the concept of huzun ('melancholy'). Istanbul's huzun, Pamuk writes, 'is a way of looking at life that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating'. A powerful, disturbing literary journey through the soul of a great city, told by one of its great writers" (Publishers Weekly). "In the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, he has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures. He has enlarged the roots of the contemporary novel through his links to both Western and Eastern culture. This means that he has stolen the novel, one can say, from us Westerners, and has transformed it into something different from what we have ever seen before" (Horace Engdahl, Nobel Prize Committee). An absolute "must-have" title for Orhan Pamuk collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated in blue ink-pen on the title page by the author: "2018 Orhan Pamuk". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Pamuk's signature on this copy is fabulous, one of the most beautiful we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed and dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Signed copies of Pamuk's books are scarce and as such, have always been collectible. Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003 for "My Name Is Red". Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, the first Turkish writer to be so deservedly honored. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ORHAN PAMUK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1400040957. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: USED_FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 384 pages. Published in 2005. Rare Orhan Pamuk collectible set. Fine copies of "Istanbul" First Hardcover Edition/First Printing, signed and dated by the the author, and the Uncorrected Proof of the 2017 New Illustrated Deluxe Edition. The latter contains lovely vintage photographs by Orhan Pamuk and others that did not appear in the original edition. The author's valentine-memoir on subject. One of Orhan Pamuk's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Orhan Pamuk's "Istanbul: Memories And The City" in a felicitous English translation. An evocative portrait of a great and storied city, an elegy for a bygone civilization, and a meditation on the "complicated intimacies" (Pamuk's phrase) of life itself. "Spins a masterful tale, moving from his fractured extended family, all living in a communal apartment building, out into the city and encompassing the entire Ottoman Empire. Pamuk sees the slow collapse of the once powerful empire hanging like a pall over the city and its citizens. Central to many Istanbul residents' character is the concept of huzun ('melancholy'). Istanbul's huzun, Pamuk writes, 'is a way of looking at life that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating'. A powerful, disturbing literary journey through the soul of a great city, told by one of its great writers" (Publishers Weekly). "In the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, he has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures. He has enlarged the roots of the contemporary novel through his links to both Western and Eastern culture. This means that he has stolen the novel, one can say, from us Westerners, and has transformed it into something different from what we have ever seen before" (Horace Engdahl, Nobel Prize Committee). An absolute "must-have" title for Orhan Pamuk collectors. This copy is magnificently signed and dated in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "2010 Orhan Pamuk". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Pamuk's signature on this copy is spectacular, the most beautiful signed copy of this book we have ever seen. It comes with a pristine copy of the Uncorrected Proof of the New Illustrated Deluxe Edition (2017), which features photographs by Orhan Pamuk and other great photographers. This title is a contemporary classic. This is the only such signed and dated copy (with Uncorrected Proof) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Signed copies of Pamuk's books are scarce and as such, have always been collectible. Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003 for "My Name Is Red". Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, the first Turkish writer to be so deservedly honored. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER ORHAN PAMUK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1400040957. Signed by Author.