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      The New Life

      by Orhan Pamuk
      Published
      Apr 1997
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      A literary adventure about how reading a book can change a life from a Nobel Prize Winner in Literature.

      "One of the essential and enduring writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own." —New York Times Book Review

      Osman is a young university student whose life is changed by a chance encounter with a mysterious book. Osman becomes obsessed with the book, which seems to contain all the magic and power of life and love. 

      Romantic and elusive, Orhan Pamuk's The New Life is a rhapsody to love and an investigation into the shadowy nature of self.

      "Weird, hypnotic. . . . The New Life veers from intellectual conundrums in the Borges vein to rapturous lyricism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez." —Wall Street Journal

      "This enchanting book combines the vertiginous surreality of a dream, the mythic resonance of a fairy tale, the heroic adventure (in ironic version) of a comic book and the sly sleight of hand of a Borges." —Newsday 

      "Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence and arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." —John Updike, The New Yorker

      Translated from the Turkish by Güneli Gün

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      Apr 1998 Vintage ISBN13 9780375701719 ISBN10 0375701710
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      Aug 2007 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571193783 ISBN10 0571193781
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      Oct 2015 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571326082 ISBN10 0571326080
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      First Edition Apr 1997 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374221294 ISBN10 0374221294
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      Dec 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9781466887640 ISBN10 1466887648
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      Dec 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN10 B00P5UV6YO
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      Dec 2014 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571268375 ISBN10 0571268374
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      Mar 2018 Faber & Faber ISBN10 B07B15XY59
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      Mar 2018 Random House Audio ISBN10 B0799ZSFMS
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