New Life

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Orhan Pamuk, Guneli Gun: New Life (2016, Faber & Faber, Limited)

304 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2016 by Faber & Faber, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-571-32608-2
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5 stars (1 review)

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Stunning writing

5 stars

I was lucky enough to win a copy of Snow a couple of years ago and absolutely loved Orhan Pamuk's writing. His poetic descriptions are beautiful and I managed to completely lose myself in the book. So when I saw a copy of The New Life on a second-hand stall in Bristol, I snapped it up.

The New Life is a mix of books in one. There is the stunning writing in which to lose yourself, a road journey through a Turkey which is being lost even as our narrator discovers it, and a splash of mysticism to aid and baffle the reader in equal measure! The seemingly unending bus journeys are brilliantly portrayed, both their tedium and the mortal risk of boarding. I did not completely understand everything as I read it, although much later became clear with further chapters and, as with Snow, I need to learn more …

Subjects

  • Fiction, general
  • Turkey, fiction