A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or hüzün– that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters–both Turkish and foreign–who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving. Orhan Pamuk: Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature

◆ 诺贝尔文学奖得主、《我的名字叫红》《伊斯坦布尔》作者奥尔罕•帕慕克 蛰伏六年动情写就 全球60个语种正在流行。 ◆斩获诺奖之后还能写出自己的最佳作品，帕慕克就是这样的大师。——《独立报》 ◆让一千万人聚集在伊斯坦布尔的东西是生计、利益和账单，但只有一样东西支撑着这茫茫人海中的人们，那就是爱。 ◆嘈杂腐败而又日新月异的城市史诗，天真、正派又卑微的街边小贩的人生传奇。 《我脑袋里的怪东西》是一个讲述钵扎小贩麦夫鲁特的人生、 冒险、幻想和他的朋友们的故事,同时也是一幅通过众人视角描绘的 1969—2012年间伊斯坦布尔生活的画卷。 在麦夫鲁特还是一个生活在安纳托利亚中部穷山村少年的时候，他就不住地幻想自己未来的生活会是怎样。 十二岁时他辗转来到“世界的中心”——伊斯坦布尔打拼，立刻被那些老城消逝、新城待建的景象所吸引。他继承了父亲的事业，在土耳其的街道上贩卖钵扎。他与那些在城市繁华外荒凉处的居民一样，渴望致富。但是运气似乎永远都不追随他，他看着亲戚们在伊斯坦布尔暴富并定居；而自己却花了三年时间给一位仅在婚礼上有过一面之缘的女孩儿写情书，最后却阴差阳错地和那女孩儿的姐姐私奔。麦夫鲁特人到中年，在伊斯坦布尔的街巷里做过许多营生，酸奶小贩、鹰嘴豆鸡肉饭小贩、停车场管理员…… 他珍惜自己的家人和妻子，可工作失意、生活窘迫仍不断挤压着他。无论如何，他仍然夜复一夜，漫步在伊斯坦布尔街头，一边卖钵扎，思念自己的真爱，一边琢磨着脑袋里冒出的一个又一个怪怪的东西，这些念头让他自感与众不同。他，一个没钱没地位的钵扎贩子，既属于这个大都市，又在头脑中不停地寻找着另一种生活。

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

一个骨子里充满了现实主义的商人，他结交商人朋友、买大房子、娶帕夏的女儿，却不敢有一丝偏离现状的想法。 一个在富裕家庭中成长的青年，他不愿庸庸碌碌、渴望梦想，却找不到方向、脱离实际，最终淹没在现实主义的洪流中。 一个用理想谋生的画家，他在艺术的道路上遂愿而行，却还要面对冗杂生活的纷扰，在现实中迷惘、犹疑。