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'''''Nights of Plague''''' ({{lang-tr|'''Veba Geceleri'''}}) is a 2021 novel by ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walia |first1=Shelly |title=‘Nights of Plague’ by Orhan Pamuk: Creating fiction out of history |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/reviews/story/nights-of-plague-by-orhan-pamuk-creating-fiction-out-of-history-445740ction out ... Tribune In |website=]}}</ref> Its Pamuk's 11th and longest novel isnpired from historical events, set on a fictitious island in the eastern ] between ] and ] called Mingheria.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kellman |first1=Steven G. |title=Orhan Pamuk's 'Nights of Plague' entangles an epidemic with a (fictional) revolution |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-10-04/review-orhan-pamuks-nights-of-plague-entangles-an-epidemic-with-a-fictional-revolution |website=] |date=4 October 2022}}</ref> '''''Nights of Plague''''' ({{lang-tr|'''Veba Geceleri'''}}) is a 2021 novel by ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walia |first1=Shelly |title=‘Nights of Plague’ by Orhan Pamuk: Creating fiction out of history |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/reviews/story/nights-of-plague-by-orhan-pamuk-creating-fiction-out-of-history-445740 |website=]}}</ref> Its Pamuk's 11th and longest novel inspired from historical events, set on a fictitious island in the eastern ] between ] and ] called Mingheria.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kellman |first1=Steven G. |title=Orhan Pamuk's 'Nights of Plague' entangles an epidemic with a (fictional) revolution |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-10-04/review-orhan-pamuks-nights-of-plague-entangles-an-epidemic-with-a-fictional-revolution |website=] |date=4 October 2022}}</ref>

A number of early reviewers have observed that Nights of Plague's plot is similar to ]' existentialist novel ]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ley |first1=James |title=‘Extraordinary achievement’: Nobel winner gives us one of his finest creations |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/ancient-versus-modern-in-a-story-of-sickness-and-murder-20221107-p5bwad.html |website=] |language=en |date=11 November 2022}}</ref>. A number of early reviewers have observed that Nights of Plague's plot is similar to ]' existentialist novel ]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ley |first1=James |title=‘Extraordinary achievement’: Nobel winner gives us one of his finest creations |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/ancient-versus-modern-in-a-story-of-sickness-and-murder-20221107-p5bwad.html |website=] |language=en |date=11 November 2022}}</ref>.

Its English translation was published by ] in United States and ] in ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hughes-Hallett |first1=Lucy |title=Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review – a playful approach to big themes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/21/nights-of-plague-by-orhan-pamuk-review-a-playful-approach-to-big-themes |website=] |date=21 September 2022}}</ref> Its English translation was published by ] in United States and ] in ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hughes-Hallett |first1=Lucy |title=Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review – a playful approach to big themes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/21/nights-of-plague-by-orhan-pamuk-review-a-playful-approach-to-big-themes |website=] |date=21 September 2022}}</ref>
==Plot Summary== ==Plot Summary==
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According to Judith Shulevitz of ] Nights of Plague is plainly ] and ], and narrated the mordant riffs on Ottoman, revolutionary, and nationalist leadership styles amount to a critique of ], ], and even ]'s government—but not in a single sentence.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shulevitz |first1=Judith |title=Orhan Pamuk’s Literature of Paranoia |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/historical-fiction-political-satire-orhan-pamuk-nights-of-plague/671535/ |website=] |language=en |date=30 September 2022}}</ref> According to Judith Shulevitz of ] Nights of Plague is plainly ] and ], and narrated the mordant riffs on Ottoman, revolutionary, and nationalist leadership styles amount to a critique of ], ], and even ]'s government—but not in a single sentence.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shulevitz |first1=Judith |title=Orhan Pamuk’s Literature of Paranoia |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/historical-fiction-political-satire-orhan-pamuk-nights-of-plague/671535/ |website=] |language=en |date=30 September 2022}}</ref>
==Reception== ==Reception==
James Wood in his review for '']<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kemp |first1=Peter |title=Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review — a Turkish delight |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nights-of-plague-by-orhan-pamuk-review-a-turkish-delight-jxpkqpgmx |website=] |language=en |date=27 September 2023}}</ref>'' noted that a peculiar way in which Pamuk, attentive to how, in history, the disease has been unfairly Orientalized, relishes, in fiction, shamelessly Orientalizing his own island, imbuing it with swirls of Ottoman magic and mythology, This reader was not surprised to discover Pamuk taking a jab at Edward Said at the end of the work, for the "negatively inflected sense" of Said's academic term "Orientalist."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=James |title=Outbreaks and Uprisings in Orhan Pamuk’s “Nights of Plague” |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/outbreaks-and-uprisings-in-orhan-pamuks-nights-of-plague |website=] |date=24 October 2022}}</ref> James Wood in his review for '']'' noted that a peculiar way in which Pamuk, attentive to how, in history, the disease has been unfairly Orientalized, relishes, in fiction, shamelessly Orientalizing his own island, imbuing it with swirls of Ottoman magic and mythology, This reader was not surprised to discover Pamuk taking a jab at Edward Said at the end of the work, for the "negatively inflected sense" of Said's academic term "Orientalist."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=James |title=Outbreaks and Uprisings in Orhan Pamuk’s “Nights of Plague” |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/outbreaks-and-uprisings-in-orhan-pamuks-nights-of-plague |website=] |date=24 October 2022}}</ref>


In his review for '']'' Peter Kemp called it masterfully weaving a tale of intrigue and disease on the fictional island of Mingheria. In his review for '']'' Peter Kemp called it masterfully weaving a tale of intrigue and disease on the fictional island of Mingheria.''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kemp |first1=Peter |date=27 September 2023 |title=Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review — a Turkish delight |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nights-of-plague-by-orhan-pamuk-review-a-turkish-delight-jxpkqpgmx |website=] |language=en}}</ref>''


==References== ==References==

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2021 novel by Orhan Pamuk
Nights of Plague
AuthorOrhan Pamuk
Original titleVeba Geceleri
TranslatorEkin Oklap
LanguageTurkish
GenreHistorical fiction
PublisherYapi Kredi Yayinlari
Publication dateMarch 23, 2021
Publication placeTurkey
Published in EnglishOctober 4, 2022
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages544 pp. (original Turkish)
ISBN978-0525656890

Nights of Plague (Template:Lang-tr) is a 2021 novel by Orhan Pamuk. Its Pamuk's 11th and longest novel inspired from historical events, set on a fictitious island in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus called Mingheria.

A number of early reviewers have observed that Nights of Plague's plot is similar to Albert Camus' existentialist novel The Plague.

Its English translation was published by Knopf Doubleday in United States and Faber and Faber in United Kingdom.

Plot Summary

In the year 1901, a ship from Istanbul arrives on Mingheria, an island plagued by the Bubonic plague. This island serves as a microcosm of the declining Ottoman Empire, where diverse groups coexist but are on the brink of disintegration. The plague, in a literal sense, mirrors the empire's metaphorical characterization as "the sick man of Europe." To combat the outbreak, the Sultan dispatches Bonkowski Pasha, the empire's chief inspector of public health, followed by a Muslim epidemiologist, Prince Consort Doctor Nuri Bey, and his wife, Princess Pakize.

When the chief inspector is murdered, it falls upon Princess Pakize and Prince Consort Doctor Nuri Bey to employ methods reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes to identify the culprit. Simultaneously, Western medicine works to control the plague. However, the islanders resist quarantine measures, resulting in an increasing number of infectious bodies. Amidst this chaos, gruesome discoveries like the corpses of two individuals fused together are made, leaving questions about their relationship unanswered.

Themes and style

Matt A. Hanson of World Literature Today noted that the motifs of Nights of Plague are prevalent in the latter years of Ottoman collapse, notably during Abdul Hamid's disastrous reign, which Pamuk fictionalises the formation of the fragmented political identities that sparked World War I and eventually strengthened the foundations of the Turkish republic rising from the ashes of its sick, old-man empire. According to Judith Shulevitz of The Atlantic Nights of Plague is plainly satire and metaphor, and narrated the mordant riffs on Ottoman, revolutionary, and nationalist leadership styles amount to a critique of Atatürk, Kemalism, and even President Erdoğan's government—but not in a single sentence.

Reception

James Wood in his review for The New Yorker noted that a peculiar way in which Pamuk, attentive to how, in history, the disease has been unfairly Orientalized, relishes, in fiction, shamelessly Orientalizing his own island, imbuing it with swirls of Ottoman magic and mythology, This reader was not surprised to discover Pamuk taking a jab at Edward Said at the end of the work, for the "negatively inflected sense" of Said's academic term "Orientalist."

In his review for The Times Peter Kemp called it masterfully weaving a tale of intrigue and disease on the fictional island of Mingheria.

References

  1. Walia, Shelly. "'Nights of Plague' by Orhan Pamuk: Creating fiction out of history". The Tribune (India).
  2. Kellman, Steven G. (4 October 2022). "Orhan Pamuk's 'Nights of Plague' entangles an epidemic with a (fictional) revolution". Los Angeles Times.
  3. Ley, James (11 November 2022). "'Extraordinary achievement': Nobel winner gives us one of his finest creations". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. Hughes-Hallett, Lucy (21 September 2022). "Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review – a playful approach to big themes". The Guardian.
  5. Gates, David (30 September 2022). "A Nobelist's New Novel, Rife With Pestilence and Writerly Tricks". The New York Times.
  6. Gordon, Peter (24 October 2022). ""Nights of Plague" by Orhan Pamuk". Asian Review of Books.
  7. Genç, Kaya (4 April 2023). "Orhan Pamuk Turns an Outbreak Into a Revolution". The New Republic.
  8. Karthik, Savitha. "Shaped by the scourge". Deccan Herald.
  9. Goldsmith, Jane Turner (18 October 2022). "Curfews, quarantine, fake news, insurrection: Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague feels eerily prescient". The Conversation.
  10. Hoffert, Barbara. "Reading the World | Key Works of Translated Fiction for Fall". Library Journal.
  11. Hanson, Matt. "Nights of Plague: A Novel by Orhan Pamuk". World Literature Today.
  12. Shulevitz, Judith (30 September 2022). "Orhan Pamuk's Literature of Paranoia". The Atlantic.
  13. Wood, James (24 October 2022). "Outbreaks and Uprisings in Orhan Pamuk's "Nights of Plague"". The New Yorker.
  14. Kemp, Peter (27 September 2023). "Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review — a Turkish delight". The Times.
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