Maureen Freely Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Estambul, 1975. A sus treinta años Kemal, miembro de una familia de la alta burguesía de la ciudad, cumple a la perfección los mandatos que su mundo le impone: ha estudiado en Estados Unidos, trabaja como director general en una de las empresas de su padre y está a punto de casarse con una chica perteneciente a su misma clase. Pero un día, Kemal se reencuentra por casualidad con Füsun, una pariente lejana a la que no veía desde que era una niña y convertida ahora en una atractiva muchacha de dieciocho años. Entre ambos surge una inocente y desinhibida aventura que desembocará en una pasión sin límites. Hasta el día en que Füsun desaparece, dejando a su amante sumido en una irreparable melancolía. Sin embargo, con el tiempo Kemal aprenderá a hallar un consuelo a su mal: los objetos que alguna vez pertenecieron a Füsun. Objetos que él aprenderá a conservar y a amar, convirtiéndolos en reliquias de la religión privada en que se ha convertido en su adoración por la muchacha. Su tesoro, que lo hará famoso y objeto de las burlas de la sociedad de Estambul, se convertirá en un museo particular, en el verdadero mapa de los rituales y usos de todo una sociedad, y del corazón roto de un hombre.

Jeannie Wakefield needs help. Her family is being held by the US authorities. M is a journalist and at Jeannie's request she returns to Istanbul to investigate. She tries to be objective, but Jeannie's husband is also M's first love.

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times

Freelys Thema ist ädas befremdende Vorurteil gegenüber Mütternä als zentralem Problem des modernen Feminismus. Ihr frischer, herzhafter Zugriff auf Alltag und Rolle von Müttern ist zugleich ironisierender Sozialreport und enthält auch konstruktive Thesen.

This work explores why feminism comes into conflict with women who have children, and why women with children suffer when they try to put feminist ideas into practice.

Introduces Hector Cabot, a wild drunk and philanderer, who is both the catalyst and court jester to a group of displaced Americans and Europeans in an expatriate community in Istanbul