Orhan Pamuk has published his new novel

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Orhan Pamuk has published another book called “The Museum of Innocence”. The novel containing 592 pages, tells about the love of a rich man towards the sunset of modern Istanbul.

The author is working at the English version of the book at the moment and german-speaking readers will have the novel in September.

Pamuk had to leave his apartement in Istanbul because of eternal threats from Turkish society and government and went to live in the USA.

Note that Pamuks’ books admitting Armenian Genocide and representing the facts of Qurdish people’s massacre were burnt in the streets of Istanbul. Moreover, Turkish government had opened a court trial against Pamuk accusing him of “hurting Turkish peoples’ feelings”.

By the way, Orhan Pamuks’ books have been translated in more than 40 languages.