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Orhan Pamuk is the most famous Turkish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest book, Plague Nights, is a historical detective novel permeated with the atmosphere of an oriental fairy tale; This is a novel that combines the most controversial themes: love and politics, religion and plague, East and West.

"Plague Nights" not only immerses the reader in the distant past, but also mercilessly illuminates the present day. The setting of the book is a small Mediterranean island with both Greek (Orthodox) and Turkish (Islamic) populations. The calm life of the paradise is disrupted with the arrival of a terrible disease - the plague. To suppress it, as well as with another, secret mission, an epidemiologist arrives on the island with his wife, the niece of Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. However, not everyone on the island is ready to follow the doctor’s orders and quarantine measures, because everything is the will of Allah and resisting this will can be deadly...