The New Life by Orhan Pamuk [Paperback: Very Good]

Paperback in Very Good condition (296 pages)

Translated from the Turkish by Güneli Gün

Guardian Osman is a young engineering student when he finds a mysterious and dangerous book that promises him a new and exciting life.  He abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, falls in love, and embarks on restless bus rides through a nocturnal landscape of travellers' cafes and apocalyptic bus wrecks, all in pursuit of this elusive vision.  But will he, or the reader, ever understand the nature of this strange obsession?

Part road novel, part metaphysical thriller, The New Life was, on initial publication, the fastest selling title in Turkish history.  Displaying all of Pamuk's characteristic wit and elegance, it is a stunning evocation of a nation suspended perilously between east and west.