Plague nights. Pamuk O.

Orhan Pamuk is the most famous Turkish writer, Nobel Laureate of Literature. His last book “Plague Nights” is a historical and detective novel, permeated by the atmosphere of the oriental fairy tale; This is a novel that combines the most conflicting topics: love and politics, religion and plague, the east and the West.

“plague nights” not only immerse the reader in the distant past, but also mercilessly illuminate today's day. The scene of the book is a small Mediterranean island on which both the Greek (Orthodox) and the Turkish (Islamic) population lives. The calm life of a paradise is violated with the advent of a terrible disease - plague. To suppress it, as well as with a different, secret mission, an epidemiologist arrives at the island with his wife, niece of Sultan Abdul-Hamid the Second. However, not everyone on the island is ready to follow the instructions of the doctor and quarantine measures, because all the will of Allah and resist this will can be deadly...