Orhan Pamuk is the most famous Turkish writer, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature. His latest book, «The Plague Nights», is a historical detective novel imbued with the atmosphere of an eastern fairy tale; it is a novel that combines...
the most controversial themes: love and politics, religion and plague, East and West. «The Plague Nights» not only immerses the reader in a distant past but also relentlessly illuminates the present day. The setting of the book is a small Mediterranean island inhabited by both Greek (Orthodox) and Turkish (Islamic) populations. The peaceful life of this paradise is disrupted by the arrival of a terrible disease—the plague. To suppress it, as well as for another, secret mission, an epidemiologist doctor arrives on the island with his wife, the niece of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. However, not everyone on the island is ready to follow the doctor's prescriptions and quarantine measures, as everything is in the will of Allah, and opposing this will can be fatally dangerous….
Orhan Pamuk is the most famous Turkish writer, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature. His latest book, «The Plague Nights», is a historical detective novel imbued with the atmosphere of an eastern fairy tale; it is a novel that combines the most controversial themes: love and politics, religion and plague, East and West. «The Plague Nights» not only immerses the reader in a distant past but also relentlessly illuminates the present day. The setting of the book is a small Mediterranean island inhabited by both Greek (Orthodox) and Turkish (Islamic) populations. The peaceful life of this paradise is disrupted by the arrival of a terrible disease—the plague. To suppress it, as well as for another, secret mission, an epidemiologist doctor arrives on the island with his wife, the niece of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. However, not everyone on the island is ready to follow the doctor's prescriptions and quarantine measures, as everything is in the will of Allah, and opposing this will can be fatally dangerous….
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