The New Life

Written by Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by John Lee

'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.'

So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces, in pursuit of an elusive vision. This is a wondrous odyssey, laying bare the rage of an arid heartland. In coffee houses with black-and-white TV sets, on buses where passengers ride watching B-movies on flickering screens, in wrecks along the highway, in paranoid fictions with spies as punctual as watches, the magic of Pamuk's creation comes alive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9780571345519

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is the author of such novels as The New Life, The Black Book, My Name Is Red and The White Castle. He has won numerous international awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. He lives with his wife and daughter in Istanbul.

Reviews for The New Life

[leonher · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Abandoned because I was put off by the narrator: his delivery is too pompous, with too many changes in volume... probably a decent novel but I'd rather read it myself then.