Mein Neues

Heute konnte ich endlich mein bestelltes Buch von Thalia abholen. Ich warte schon ewig das dieses Buch in einer neuen Auflage mit einem schöneren Cover erscheint und jetzt Ende April war es endlich so weit. Für den Namenstag meines Mannes habe ich auch noch ein Buch mitgenommen, aber das wird erst im Juni hier eingestellt.

Ich habe mir gekauft - und werde es sofort heute Abend zu lesen beginnen:

Orhan Pamuk
The White Castle

From the Back Cover: "The White Castle", Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar. Captured by pirates between Venice and Naples, he is put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, and bought by a Turkish savant eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West. But as they bond over each other's sins and secrets, and their relationship grows increasingly complex, master and slave find themselves part of the Sultan's army, and on a journey that will lead them, ultimately, to the White Castle.

'A new star has risen in the East - Orhan Pamuk. "The White Castle" is one of those rare novels that call into being a complete and self-contained world shot through with a peculiar brilliance ...

Orhan Pamuk is a story-teller with as much gumption and narrative zip as Scheherazade.' New York Times
'Elegant and important ... Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate; their seriousness, their delicacy and their subtlety are everywhere in evidence.' Independence
'Turkey's foremost novelist and one of the most interesting literary figures anywhere ... A first-rate storyteller.' Times Literary Supplement
'Up there with the best of Calvino, Eco, Borges and Marquez.' Observer