Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022

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Beautiful, full-colour selectionsfrom the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s selected art notebooks.Between the ages of seven and twenty-two, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk (author of Snow, My Name is Red, Istambul, and Nights of Plague) aspired to be a painter. At twenty-two, the painter in him died and he started writing novels. But in 2008, he entered a shop only to come out with two large bags full of pencils and brushes—the painter inside him was not dead. Memories of Distant Mountains collects images and text from the renowned writer’s travel notebooks, each page capturing his sketches and thoughts in Istanbul, Urbino, Mumbai, Goa, Granada, Venice, New York, Paris, and Los Angeles. He records the events of the day, notes his thoughts on current events, books in progress, dialogues with the characters of his novels.     Spanning years, the selected pages are a chronicle of an artist’s continual return to these conversations with one’s self, completing and filling the blank pages, giving birth to an exceptionally rich literary art object in its own right.     For the first time, the writer who dreamed of becoming a painter reveals his notebooks through a personal selection made from several thousand pages.

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