Pamuk, Orhan. Cevdet Bey ve ogullari. [Istanbul], Karacan Yayinlari, 1982. Octavo. 587 pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Original wraps with some evidence of dampstaining to the spine. The wrappers are slightly darkened and rubbed with minute loss at the spine ends. The pages are darkened as usual. The text has some generally light inking (notes and underlining) throughout on approximately 200 pages and on the inside of the rear wrapper. Spine a little weak due to the bulk of the text. Rare in any condition as only 3,000 copies were printed. Pamuk was born and raised in a well-to-do, westernized Turkish family in Istanbul. His grandfather, a civil engineer and industrialist, became wealthy by building railroads. For most of his life Pamuk has lived in his native city, once confessing that, "Istanbul's fate is my fate: I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am." The double identity of Istanbul has also deeply affected Pamuk's writing, in which the city and its history are inseparable. At the age of fifteen Pamuk started to paint and at one point in his life he planned to become an artist. He also began to read books from his father's library and write poetry, but eventually grew out his enthusiasm for poetry. After finishing Robert College Pamuk entered the Istanbul Technical University in 1970 where he studied architecture, but he did not graduate. He then studied journalism at the University of Istanbul in part to delay his military service. In 1977 received a degree in journalism. “Pamuk began writing seriously in 1974 and eight years later published his first novel, Cevdet Bey ve ogullari (‘Cevdet Bey and His Sons’), a sweeping history of an Istanbul family during and after the establishment of the Turkish republic.” (Encyc. Brit. online) Originally titled Karanlik ve Isik (Darkness and Light) it was a co-winner of the 1979 Milliyet Press Novel Contest-- a prize awarded for the best unpublished novel in Turkey. Pamuk spent four years trying to find a publisher after he won the prize. When it was published the book was given the new title Cevdet Bey ve ogullari. In 1983 the book was awarded the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize. In 2006 Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for his literary works. The Turkish Nobel laureate in literature “has said that growing up, he experienced a shift from a traditional Ottoman family environment to a more Western-oriented lifestyle. He wrote about this in his first published novel, a family chronicle entitled Cevdet Bey Ve Og(ullar? (1982), which in the spirit of Thomas Mann follows the development of a family over three generations.” (nobelprize.org)

• Category: Inscribed / Signed
• Keywords: First Edition · Inscribed · SIGNED
• Language: Turkish
• Inventory number: 12673LB

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