Shelfology Book Pairing

by Orhan Pamuk

Galip adalah seorang pengacara yang tinggal di Istanbul. Suatu hari, Ruya-istrinya yang tercinta-menghilang begitu saja. Galip curiga Ruya meninggalkan dirinya demi Celal, seorang kolumnis surat kabar terkenal. Masalahnya, Celal pun ikut menghilang tanpa jejak. Dalam investigasi demi menemukan keberadaan sang istri, Galip mencoba menguak identitas Celal. Galip merasa, dengan mencoba berpikir sebagai Celal, memakai pakaian Celal, dan menjadi Celal, ia bisa menemukan petunjuk akan keberadaan istrinya. Namun, Galip melangkah terlalu jauh. Yang ia temukan justru misteri mengerikan yang dapat membahayakan nyawanya sendiri. The Black Book adalah sebuah novel brilian yang tak hanya menyuguhkan misteri, tetapi juga pemikiran provokatif tentang eksistensi, identitas, dan jati diri. Ditulis dengan sangat ahli oleh pemenang penghargaan Nobel bidang Sastra 2006, inilah karya Orhan Pamuk di mana ia menemukan gaya sejatinya dalam bercerita.

The Neapolitan novels : middle time. Book three

by Elena Ferrante

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.