Nights of Plague 'A masterpiece of evocation' Sunday Times

<p> <b>'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' </b> <i>Daily Telegraph</i> <br> <b>'Pamuk is the real thing.' </b> <i>Observer</i> <br> ' <b>One of the world's finest living writers.'</b> <i>Independent</i> <br> <b>'Essential reading for our times.' </b> <i>Margaret Atwood</i> <br> <b>'Everyone should read Pamuk.' </b> <i>New Statesman <br> </i> <br> <b>An epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder, from one of history's master storytellers. <br> </b> <br> 1901. Night draws in. <br> <br> With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship <i>Aziziye</i> approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria, the twenty-ninth state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead. There are rumours of plague - rumours some in power will try to suppress. <br> <br> But plague is not the only killer. Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe, and the future of a fragile empire is at stake. <br> <br> <b>'A wry meditation on nationalism and identity, on history and myth, on science and superstition, delivered with Orhan Pamuk's trademark storytelling flair.' </b> <i>Financial Times <br> </i> <br> <b>'A tale of spies, conspiracy and murder . . . full of vivid characters.'</b> <i> Independent</i> </p>