Annie the Book reviewed Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
Nights of Plague, by Orhan Pamuk
3 stars
Nights of Plague, by Orhan Pamuk and faithfully translated by Ekin Oklap, transports us more than a century into the past, to a country that never existed but one that feels every bit as real as the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk manages this by giving his invented history the pacing and vocabulary of a nineteenth-century novel, full of old-fashioned etiquette, dungeons, sudden reversals, and plenty of Romance. Even though this book could be read as a recreation of hundred-plus-year-old epic novels à la Dickens or Tolstoy, one doesn’t have to look very hard to see the parallels to our present. The over-arcing plot of this novel shows us a country faced with a lethal plague, a population reluctant to take precautions, and a headlong tumble into nationalism...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via …
Nights of Plague, by Orhan Pamuk and faithfully translated by Ekin Oklap, transports us more than a century into the past, to a country that never existed but one that feels every bit as real as the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk manages this by giving his invented history the pacing and vocabulary of a nineteenth-century novel, full of old-fashioned etiquette, dungeons, sudden reversals, and plenty of Romance. Even though this book could be read as a recreation of hundred-plus-year-old epic novels à la Dickens or Tolstoy, one doesn’t have to look very hard to see the parallels to our present. The over-arcing plot of this novel shows us a country faced with a lethal plague, a population reluctant to take precautions, and a headlong tumble into nationalism...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.