Nights Of Plague Av Orhan Pamuk

<p><b>''Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.'' </b><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><b>''Pamuk is the real thing.'' </b><i>Observer</i><br>''<b>One of the world''s finest living writers.''</b><i>Independent</i><br><b>''Essential reading for our times.'' </b><i>Margaret Atwood</i><br><b>''Everyone should read Pamuk.'' </b><i>New Statesman<br></i><br><b>An epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder, from one of history¿s master storytellers.<br></b><br>1901. Night draws in.<br><br>With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship <i>Aziziye</i> approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria, the twenty-ninth state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead. There are rumours of plague ¿ rumours some in power will try to suppress.<br><br>But plague is not the only killer. Mingheria is on th