Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
Description |
xi, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Turks lcdgt |
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Men lcdgt |
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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-
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Turkey -- Social life and customs.
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Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- (OCoLC)fst00128255
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Turkey. (OCoLC)fst01208963
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Essays
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Genre/Form |
Essay (DNLM)D020474
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essays. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026291
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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Added Author |
Freely, Maureen, 1952- translator.
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Added Title |
Öteki renkler. English
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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 |
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0307266753 |
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