![]() ![]() Osman loses Janan, finds her, then loses her again for good following their failure to rescue Mehmet from his obsession. He finds the girl (Janan, also a student) and joins her search for her missing lover Mehmet-another student, as it turns out, who has abandoned his studies and spends his days endlessly re-reading and hand-copying that very book, for "enthusiasts" who support his labors in order to possess the book themselves. ![]() Its protagonist and narrator, Osman, is a young university student in Istanbul who, having seen a beautiful girl carrying a book one day, comes upon another copy, and discovers as he reads it that his life is instantly changed ("the world where I lived ceased to be mine, making me feel I have no domicile") and that he is compelled to follow wherever the book's spell leads him. ![]() A quirky and fascinating exercise in postmodernist metaphysics from the acclaimed Turkish author of The White Castle (1991) and The Black Book (1995). ![]()
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