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Author Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- author.

Title Other colors : essays and a story / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  894.35 PAMUK    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  894.3533 PAMUK    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  894.3533 PAMUK    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  894 PAM    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  894 PAM    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  894.3533 PAMUK    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  894 PAMUK    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  894.3 P19    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  894 P19O    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  894 PAMUK    Check Shelf

Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description xi, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Turks lcdgt
Men lcdgt
Nobel Prize winners lcdgt
Contents The implied author -- My father -- Notes on April 19, 1994 -- Spring afternoons -- Dead tired in the evening -- Out of bed, in the silence of night -- When the furniture is talking, how can you sleep? -- Giving up smoking -- Seagull in the rain -- A seagull lies dying on the shore -- To be happy -- My wristwatches -- I'm not going to school -- Rüya and us -- When Rüya is sad -- The view -- What I know about dogs -- A note on poetic justice -- After the storm -- In this place long ago -- The house of the man who has no one -- Barbers -- Fires and ruins -- Frankfurter -- Bosphorus ferries -- The islands -- Earthquake -- Earthquake angst in Istanbul -- How I got rid of some of my books -- On reading: words or images -- The pleasures of reading -- Nine notes on book covers -- To read or not to read : the thousand and one nights -- Foreword to Tristram Shandy: everyone should have an uncle like this -- Victor Hugo's passion for greatness -- Dostoyevsky's Notes from underground : the joys of degradation -- Dostoyevsky's fearsome demons -- The brothers Karamazov -- Cruelty, beauty, and time : on Nabokov's Ada and Lolita -- Albert Camus -- Reading Thomas Bernhard at a time of unhappiness -- The world of Thomas Bernhard's novels -- Mario Vargas Llosa and third world literature -- Salman Rushdie : The satanic verses and the freedom of the writer -- PEN Arthur Miller speech -- No entry -- Where is Europe? -- A guide to being Mediterranean -- My first passport and other European journeys -- André Gide -- Family meals and politics on religious holidays -- The anger of the damned -- Traffic and religion -- In Kars and Frankfurt -- On trial -- Who do you write for? -- The white castle afterword -- The black book : ten years on -- A selection from interviews on The new life -- A selection from interviews on My name is Red -- On My name is Red-- From the snow in Kars notebooks -- Şirin's surprise -- In the forest and as old as the world -- Murders by unknown assailants and detective novels -- Entr'acte; or, Ah, Cleopatra! -- Why didn't I become an architect? -- Selimiye Mosque -- Bellini and the East -- Black pen -- Meaning -- My first encounters with Americans -- Views from the capital of the world -- The Paris Review interview -- To look out the window -- My father's suitcase.
Summary "Orhan Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers."--Jacket.
Form Also issued online.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language Translated from the Turkish.
Subject Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-
Turkey -- Social life and customs.
Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- (OCoLC)fst00128255
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Turkey. (OCoLC)fst01208963
Essays
Genre/Form Essay (DNLM)D020474
essays. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026291
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Essays.
Added Author Freely, Maureen, 1952- translator.
Added Title Öteki renkler. English
Other Form: Online version: Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- Öteki renkler. English. Other colors. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 (OCoLC)608476156
ISBN 9780307266750
0307266753
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