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title: "The Black Book"
brand: "orhan pamukmaureen freely"
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# The Black Book

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## Customer Reviews

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    Difficult
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2002*

This is an extremely complex ,and at times, difficult novel to read.  For a Turk or someone familiar with Istanbul, some of the" stories within a story" may be fascinating. However for a non-Turk this book was more frustrating than attempts to read Marcel  Proust. The scenes described are often hallucinatory, and subsequent  narration of the same incident through different eyes, leaves you with the feeling that you have lost your place, and are re-reading the same material with a misunderstanding of what you are positive you had read and understood  earlier.The book is about identity, alienation and  the art of writing . The author's intent to mislead the reader is deliberate. Like Galip, the main character of the novel , you are constantly forced to re-evaluate that which you were quiet confident that you understood the first time around. Ultimately it becomes too disorientating, and tiresome. I have no doubt that "The Black Book" is considered a Great Novel. However Pamuk's style, in translation, makes this work very difficult and less than rewarding to read.The story of the Mannequin Maker however is very haunting, and it is this/those segment(s) of the novel which I will always remember and rediscover in memory.

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    The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
  

*by S***9 on Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2009*

Pamuk's "The Black Book" is the densest of his novels, and probes the mind of a man in the middle of a mystery with startling perception. The actual plot of the novel is paper thin; Galip goes home one day to see his wife gone, and his famous columnist cousin Celal missing as well. In his dazed effort to figure out their whereabouts, he tries to get under Celal's skin. Galip studies every aspect of Celal's life, and in so doing discovers revelations about himself, the dimensions of self, and the release of the self through writing, among man other things. This is at its core (and what a dense, labrynthine core that is) a stark philosophical story about Turkish identity. As such it is oftentimes unremittingly complex, and at others it is a highly intellectual piece of escapism. This is a story full of windy minarets, deep dark underground rooms, jarring phone calls from strangers, and lots of mysterious walks late at night. Pamuk's language is typically brilliant, ensnaring the reader close enough to make him able to wax poetic about the meaning of life without making it too dry. The reviewers below are correct- this is a novel to re-read, possibly many times, in order to understand its many layers. Thankfully it is interesting enough to haunt you into doing just that.

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    dense and revealing
  

*by K***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2007*

This is the second Orhan Pamuk book that I have read, SNOW being the first. As with SNOW, BLACK puts the reader through dense and often obscure background of the characters while getting to the point of the plot. Given the turkish government attempts to repress this author, I feel like I am getting a window into the country and the character of the citizens. It is fiction that carries the weight of a dire social and cultural reality. This is not a book for the featherweight reader.

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