by Orhan Pamuk and Maureen Freely
About the author:
Other Colors is Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize. This is a brilliant collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and other writers. He not only is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006, but his novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages and he lives in Istanbul.
Review:
I couldn't wait for this book to come out and was so happy that I was the first person to check it out from my local library. I went through every page with a fine tooth comb and had begun to reread certain selections each time I cracked open this treasure chest. Books and Reading was my favorite section of the book and I found myself making small notes based on the authors and titles that Pamuk discussed. My Books Are My Life was also an enjoyable read and I couldn't help but nod with approval throughout the section. The nineteen illustrations were simple, but beautiful and left you wanting more in each chapter from Living and Worrying. Not only is Pamuk an incredible writer, but you get a sense from this work, that he is an unbelievable lover of books. A must read for lovers of Rushdie, Dostoyevsky, Joyce, Proust, Camus and Nabokov, just to name a few.
Other Colors is Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize. This is a brilliant collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and other writers. He not only is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006, but his novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages and he lives in Istanbul.
Review:
I couldn't wait for this book to come out and was so happy that I was the first person to check it out from my local library. I went through every page with a fine tooth comb and had begun to reread certain selections each time I cracked open this treasure chest. Books and Reading was my favorite section of the book and I found myself making small notes based on the authors and titles that Pamuk discussed. My Books Are My Life was also an enjoyable read and I couldn't help but nod with approval throughout the section. The nineteen illustrations were simple, but beautiful and left you wanting more in each chapter from Living and Worrying. Not only is Pamuk an incredible writer, but you get a sense from this work, that he is an unbelievable lover of books. A must read for lovers of Rushdie, Dostoyevsky, Joyce, Proust, Camus and Nabokov, just to name a few.
