Other Colours

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.