Synopsis
Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelean Jerusalem lawyer-- a correspondence between mother and father, step-father and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case.
The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son's as well.
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About Orhan Pamuk
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Orhan Pamuk
Born 1952
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (d. 7 Haziran 1952, İstanbul), Türk romancı, senarist, akademisyen ve 2006 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü sahibidir. Türkiye'nin en önde gelen romancılarından biri olan Pamuk, 63 dilde 13 milyondan fazla kitap satarak ülkenin en çok satan yazarı olmuştur. Pamuk'un romanları arasında *Sessiz Ev, Beyaz Kale, Kara Kitap, Yeni Hayat, Benim Adım Kırmızı* ve *Kar* bulunmaktadır. ---------- Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952 in Istanbul) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk's novels include *Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red* and *Snow.*
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