Plague nights
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Orhan Pamuk is the most famous Turkish writer, Nobel Laureate of Literature. His new book “Plague Nights” is a historical-detective novel, permeated by the atmosphere of the oriental fairy tale, this is a novel that combines the most contradictory topics: love and politics, religion and plague, the east and the West. Plague Nights not only immerse the reader in the distant past, but also mercilessly highlight the day today.
The scene of the book is a small Mediterranean island, on which both Greek (Orthodox) and Turkish (Islamic) population live. The calm life of a paradise is violated with the advent of a terrible disease - plague. To suppress it, as well as with another, secret mission, an epidemiologist arrives at the island with his wife, niece of Sultan Abdull Hamid the Second. However, not everyone on the island is ready to follow the instructions of the doctor and quarantine measures: after all, to all the will of Allah and resist this will can be deadly
The scene of the book is a small Mediterranean island, on which both Greek (Orthodox) and Turkish (Islamic) population live. The calm life of a paradise is violated with the advent of a terrible disease - plague. To suppress it, as well as with another, secret mission, an epidemiologist arrives at the island with his wife, niece of Sultan Abdull Hamid the Second. However, not everyone on the island is ready to follow the instructions of the doctor and quarantine measures: after all, to all the will of Allah and resist this will can be deadly
Author:
Author:Pamuk O.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-20313-6
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