The New Life (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Orhan Pamuk
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Colonies or colonization, Love or romance, Self, Europe or Europeans, Books, Accidents, Conspiracies or conspirators, East and West, Buses
- Locales: Turkey
A young man, Osman, reads a book that changes his life. He falls in love with Janan (“soulmate”), who has arranged his finding the book as if by chance as part of her plot to restore her lover Mehmet’s faith in the very same book, one to which he had introduced her once upon a time. This is “The New Life,” the cult book, or sacred text, responsible for changing so many lives, but also a book the government has banned and that has given birth to an ultranationalistic group that has assassinated its author, an avuncular writer of children’s stories who claimed to have written...
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