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The New Life
- Author
- Orhan Pamuk
- Narrator
- John Lee
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 22 March 2018
- Run Time
- 10 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.'
So begins
The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces, in pursuit of an elusive vision. This is a wondrous odyssey, laying bare the rage of an arid heartland. In coffee houses with black-and-white TV sets, on buses where passengers ride watching B-movies on flickering screens, in wrecks along the highway, in paranoid fictions with spies as punctual as watches, the magic of Pamuk's creation comes alive.
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- Author
- Orhan Pamuk
- Narrator
- John Lee
- Duration
- 10 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 March 2018
- ISBN
- 9780571345519
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces, in pursuit of an elusive vision. This is a wondrous odyssey, laying bare the rage of an arid heartland. In coffee houses with black-and-white TV sets, on buses where passengers ride watching B-movies on flickering screens, in wrecks along the highway, in paranoid fictions with spies as punctual as watches, the magic of Pamuk's creation comes alive.
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