“Lyrical, vulnerable, deeply human and engaging. . . . [Pamuk] has become one of the essential writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own.” —Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review“Lyrical and reportorial. . . . Forms a remarkably cohesive picture of a literary man.” —The Washington Post Book World“Striking and valuable. . . . A triumph.” —The New York Review of Books“Reading these pieces one is infused with the sheer joy that exudes from each tale. . . . An autobiography in essays and tales, a book for writers and readers that is never less than captivating.” —The Baltimore Sun
About the Author
Orhan Pamuk is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2006. His novel My Name is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbuland New York.