Hugh Pope

Autobiographies of Orhan Pamuk is one of the best introductions yet to the works of Turkey’s most famous author. This literary and biographical companion provides encouragement for those confounded by the many complexities conjured up by the 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Michael McGaha untangles the way Pamuk weaves his own life into almost every story, gives critical accounts of all his major works and cleverly manages to teach the reader much about the history of modern Turkey as well.