Memories of Distant Mountains, Orhan Pamuk
Memories of Distant Mountains, Orhan Pamuk
List: $22.50 | Sale: $15.75
Club: $11.25

Memories of Distant Mountains
Illustrated Notebooks: 2009-2022

Author: Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap

Narrator: Tolga Safer

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/26/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings

For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. He writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters and the plots of his stories. Intertwined in his writings are the vibrant paintings of the landscapes that surround and inspire him.

A beautiful object in its own right, in Memories of Distant Mountains readers can explore Pamuk's intoxicating inner world and can have a fascinating, intimate encounter with the art, culture, and charged political currents that have shaped one of literature’s most important voices.

* Thia audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of the author's illustrated notebook pages.

About The Author

ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in Istanbul. Translated by Ekin Oklap.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Metin on October 03, 2022

Orhan Pamuk’un yeni kitabı Uzak Dağlar ve Hatıralar resimli defterlerinden seçmelerden oluşuyor. O “hatıra defteri” olarak tanımlamış ama çok daha farklı ve özel defterler bunlar. Orhan Pamuk, on dört yıldır, 2009’dan beri her gün küçük not defterlerine notlar alıyor ve resimler yapıyormuş. Her zama......more

Goodreads review by Fact100 on December 04, 2024

"Dünyada olmak güzel ama ruhumda, kanımda bir huzursuzluk var." Orhan Pamuk, seveninden çok sevmeyeni, pek tabii, okuyanından çok okumayanı olan ve görüşler ne olursa olsun, gerek ulusal gerek uluslararası mecrada taşıdığı önem inkâr edilemeyecek bir edebi figür. "Gece kalabalık. Nehir karanlık. Gecey......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 27, 2024

Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022 is Ekin Oklap's translation of Orhan Pamuk's 2022 work Uzak Daglar ve Hatiralar. These are edited extracts from journals Pamuk kept over the period 2009-2022, combining paintings with words, although as he explains sometimes the painting......more

Goodreads review by Özlem on November 30, 2022

"Dünya bir metin olmadan, yazılacak bir şeyin işareti haline gelmeden yaşaması zor bir yer." Pamuk'un 14 yıl boyunca bir ajandaya yaptığı resimler ve romanlarıyla, gezileriyle, iç sıkıntılarıyla ilgili tuttuğu notlar, yazdığı cümleler.. İmrenerek, çoğu zaman kıskanarak çevirdim sayfaları. Cümleler ge......more

Goodreads review by Tuna on January 20, 2025

Orhan Pamuk kesinlikle bir dahi aynı zamanda da müthiş bir ressam. Günlüklerine yazdığı günlük kesitler, rüyalar, seyahat notları, düşünceleri, romanlarını nasıl kurguladığını anlatan bir günce aslında bu. Biraz da kişiye özel bir günce. Bunları bizlerle paylaştığı için çok şanlısıyız. Şimdi kitapta......more


Quotes

"Pictures of a writer’s days. . . . An intimate volume revealing glimpses of his life and work. . . . Although he gave up artwork in favor of writing, he still finds pleasure in combining both, as did William Blake. . . . Some illustrations, glowing with pinks, greens, and yellows, evoke Matisse. In slashes of black and grey, Pamuk captures the dark mysteries of seascapes; in other drawings, he tries to convey the quality of his dreams. . . . A lyrical illuminated memoir." Kirkus Reviews