Plague Nights

Orhan Pamuk — the most famous Turkish writer, Nobel Prize laureate in literature. «Plague Nights» — is a historical detective novel, infused with the atmosphere of an Eastern fairy tale; it is a novel that combines the most contradictory themes: love and politics, religion and plague, East and West. The setting of the book — a small Mediterranean island, inhabited by both Greek (Orthodox) and Turkish (Islamic) populations. The peaceful life of this paradise is disrupted by the arrival of a terrible disease — the plague. To suppress it, as well as for another, secret mission, a doctor-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 prescriptions and quarantine measures, for everything is the will of Allah, and to oppose this will can be deadly dangerous…