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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Stated First Edition. BEGUILING: MYSTERY: ROMANCE: TRADITION: MODERNITY: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. August 2017) First Printing: NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing Orig. $26.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior printed in Minion w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.86" x 8.50" x 1.00", 0.46 kg, viii+260 (268) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: A BEGUILING mystery tale of family & romance, of east & west, tradition & modernity, by one of the great storytellers of our time: From the Nobel Prize winner & best-selling author of "Snow" & "My Name Is Red', a fable of fathers & sons & the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town 30 miles from Istanbul, a master well-digger & his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating w/o luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before--not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other & exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world. But in the nearby town, where they buy provisions & take their evening break, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The "Red-Haired Woman", an alluring member of a traveling theater company, catches his eye & seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. The young man's wildest dream will be realized, but, when in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well-digger, the boy will flee, returning to Istanbul. Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master's death & who the redheaded enchantress was. * ABOUT ORHAN PAMUK: ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel "My Name Is Red" won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. "PAMUK has made his native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin, or Proust's Paris--a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own." -from the Nobel Presentation Speech * HIGH PRAISE FOR ORPAN PAMUK: "Essential reading for our times: In Turkey, Pamuk is the equivalent of a rock star, guru, diagnostic specialist, & potential pundit. The Turkish public reads his novels as if taking its own pulse. -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR. "Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence & arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." -John Updike, The New Yorker. "Pamuk's is an astonishing achievement." -TLS (London) * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this excellent book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal additional fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket photo by Donald Jean (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ON HALF TITLE PAGE, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front jacket, corners very very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£20.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 683pp. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald built of pink stone'. The 29th 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. Each of them holds a separate mission. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead. Because Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe. There are rumours of plague, rumours some in power will try to suppress. But plague is not the only killer. Soon, the eyes of the world will turn to this ancient island, where the future of a fragile empire is at stake, in an epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).