The new life
/ Orhan Pamuk
- New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 1997
- 296 p. ; 22 cm
Through the single act of reading a book, a young student is uprooted from his old life and identity. Within days he has fallen in love with the luminous and elusive Janan; witnessed the attempted assassination of a rival suitor; and forsaken his family to travel aimlessly through a nocturnal landscape of traveler's cafes and apocalyptic bus wrecks.