Orhan Pamuk
1) Snow
Author
Language
English
Description
After years of lonely political exile, poet Ka returns to Turkey and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear their headscarves.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Abril de 1901. Un barco se dirige hacia la isla de Minguer, la perla del Mediterráneo oriental. A bordo se encuentran la princesa Pakize Sultan, sobrina del sultán Abdülhamit II, y su reciente esposo, el doctor Nuri, pero también un misterioso pasajero que viaja de incógnito: el célebre inspector jefe de sanidad del Imperio otomano, encargado de confirmar los rumores de peste que han llegado hasta el continente. En las animadas calles de la...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria--the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire--located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives--brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca, or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria--the island revolts.