Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the
detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have
left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper
columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip
investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl
's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls,
even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable
clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when
he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.
With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The
Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a
provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary
readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk
found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected
by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s
beautiful new translation, they, too, may encounter all its
riches.
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