Orhan Pamuk: Nights of Plague
Nights of Plague
Buch
- Übersetzung: Robert Finn
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781984897619
- Bestellnummer: 11465124
- Umfang: 704 Seiten
- Gewicht: 499 g
- Maße: 202 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 34 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.It is April 1900 on the imaginary island of Mingheria--a state of the Ottoman Empire--located between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives, the island revolts.
To stop the epidemic, an accomplished quarantine expert races to the island, but not everyone is happy with the precautions or the quarantine he enforces. What follows is a shocking murder. The plague continues its rapid spread and stricter quarantine measures are declared, but the incompetence of the island's governor, increased hostility between the two religions, and the people's refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure. As the death count rises to insurmountable amounts, warships blockade the island to keep the disease from spreading. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves.
Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.
Biografie (Orhan Pamuk)
Orhan Pamuk, geb. 1952 in Istanbul, studierte Architektur und Journalismus und lebte mehrere Jahre in New York. Für seine Romane erhielt er 1990 den Independent Foreign Fiction Award, 1991 den Prix de la découverte européenne, 2003 der International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2005 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels und in demselben Jahr den Ricarda-Huch-Preis, 2006 den Nobelpreis für Literatur und 2007 die Ehrendoktorwürde der FU Berlin als 'Ausnahmeerscheinung der Weltliteratur'. Im Jahr 2012 wurde er mit dem Sonning-Preis ausgezeichnet. Orhan Pamuk
Nights of Plague
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