Nights of Plague

Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.` Daily Telegraph `Pamuk is the real thing.` Observer `One of the world`s finest living writers.` Independent `Essential reading for our times.` Margaret Atwood `Everyone should read Pamuk.` New Statesman An epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder, from one of history`s master storytellers. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye 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. But plague is not the only killer. Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe, and the future of a fragile empire is at stake. `A wry meditation on nationalism and identity, on history and myth, on science and superstition, delivered with Orhan Pamuk`s trademark storytelling flair.` Financial Times `A tale of spies, conspiracy and murder . . . full of vivid characters.` Independent