BLACK BOOK, THE

　　A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely
　　Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detectivenovel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for herex-husband or Cel?l, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cel?l, too,seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himselfassuming the enviable Cel?l's identity, wearing his clothes,answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursuesevery conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keepschanging, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fearthe worst.
　　With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The BlackBook is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocativemeditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is thecherished 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, mayencounter all its riches.