Plague Nights / Orhan Pamuk 9789750849282

Plague Nights, on which Orhan Pamuk has been working for 5 years, takes place on the island of Minger, the 29th province of the Ottoman Empire, during the 3rd Plague Pandemic in 1901. This historical novel, in which Pamuk discusses the epidemic, quarantine, state and individual issues with a fairy tale atmosphere, is both a gripping novel of politics and romance, and sheds light on the days we live in with its subject. When a plague epidemic broke out in Minger Island, the 29th province of the Ottoman Empire, in the spring of 1901, Sultan Abdülhamit first sent the Chief Health Inspector, Chemist Bonkowski Pasha, and then the young and successful Doctor Nuri, to the island to stop the epidemic. The Sultan has recently married the young doctor to Pakize Sultan, the daughter of the previous sultan Murat V, and Pakize Sultan accompanies her husband on this journey. On the island, there are the young and nationalist Ottoman officer Kolağası Kamil, the islander Zeynep he falls in love with, the Governor Sami Pasha, who is trying to keep up with everything, and his beautiful lover Marika. Plague Nights is the story of the love and struggle of these people, who struggle to obey the quarantine prohibitions, fight the plague, the traditions on the island, and eventually each other and death threats. “Cotton is the greatest living writer.” -Le Point, France “Cotton is a unique writer who wrote his best books after the Nobel.” -The Independent, UK “He is neither an ideologue, nor a politician, nor a journalist. Orhan Pamuk is a great novelist.” -The New York Times, USA. More than 50 stocks are offered for sale at the campaign price.