Book description
Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless
value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature
and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate
evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative
discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent,
high profile, court case. My Father's Suitcase, Pamuk's 2006 Nobel
Lecture, a brilliant illumination of what it means to be a writer,
completes the selection from a man who is now without doubt one of
international literature's most eminent and popular figures.
Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, is the
author of many books, including The White Castle and The Black Book. In
2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in
2004 Faber published the translation of his novel Snow, which Margaret
Atwood called 'essential reading for our times.' Istanbul, a memoir of
his life in the city, was shortlisted for the BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson
Prize and described by Katie Hickman in the New Statesman as 'an
extraordinary and transcendentally beautiful book.' Orhan Pamuk lives in
Istanbul.
