THE BLACK BOOK

u003cbu003eFrom the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of u003ciu003eMy Name is Redu003c/iu003e--a brilliantly unconventional mystery of a missing wife, and a provocative meditation on identity.u003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e"A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention." --u003ciu003eThe Washington Postu003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eGalip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. u003cpu003eWith its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, u003ciu003eThe Black Booku003c/iu003e is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely's beautiful translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches. u003cpu003eA Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely