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| Author | Orhan Pamuk |
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| Original title | Veba Geceleri |
| Translator | Ekin Oklap |
| Language | Turkish |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Publisher | Yapi Kredi Yayinlari |
Publication date | March 23, 2021 |
| Publication place | Turkey |
Published in English | October 4, 2022 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 544 pp. (original Turkish) 704 pp. (English translation). |
| ISBN | 978-0525656890 |
Nights of Plague (Turkish: Veba Geceleri) is a 2021 novel by Orhan Pamuk.[1] Its Pamuk's 11th and longest novel. Inspired by historical events, it is set on a fictitious island, Mingheria, in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus.[2]
A number of early reviewers observed that Nights of Plague's plot resembles that of Albert Camus's novel The Plague.[3] Its English translation, by Ekin Oklap, was published by Knopf Doubleday in the United States and Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom.[4]
- ^ Walia, Shelly. "'Nights of Plague' by Orhan Pamuk: Creating fiction out of history". The Tribune (India).
- ^ Kellman, Steven G. (4 October 2022). "Orhan Pamuk's 'Nights of Plague' entangles an epidemic with a (fictional) revolution". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Ley, James (11 November 2022). "'Extraordinary achievement': Nobel winner gives us one of his finest creations". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Hughes-Hallett, Lucy (21 September 2022). "Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review – a playful approach to big themes". The Guardian.