“Salju mengingatkan saya kepada Tuhan. Salju mengingatkan saya pada keindahan dan kemisteriusan makhluk hidup, pada kebahagiaan yang paling asasi, yaitu kehidupan.” (halaman 146) Salju berkisah tentang seorang buangan politik bernama Ka. Ka adalah penyair Turki yang menganut paham ateis. Oleh karena pilihannya ia kemudian diasingkan dan diberi suaka ke Frankfurt, Jerman. Ka kemudian memu…
In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists goes missing and is feared murdered, their master seeks outside help.
“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.” So Kemel, the narrator of Orhan Pamuk’s new novel The Museum of Innocence, tells the author, who characteristically shows up in the work’s final sequence to explain his own relationship to his subjects. Kemel’s sentiment strikes at the heart of Pamuk’s project. We need not feel enslaved to the clock or the calendar, bec…