Translation of: Öteki renkler.

Includes index.

Library Journal Starred

Booklist

Kirkus Review

A collection of over seventy essays in which Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk comments on his life, influences, work, and environment.

1. The implied author -- 2. My father -- 3. Notes on the 29th April 1994 -- 4. Spring afternoons -- 5. Dead tired in the evening -- 6. Out of bed, in the silence of night -- 7. When the furniture is talking, how can you sleep? -- 8. Giving up smoking -- 9. Seagull in the rain -- 10. A seagull lies dying on the shore -- 11. To be happy -- 12. My wristwatches -- 13. I'm not going to school -- 14. Rüya and us -- 15. When rüya is sad -- 16. The view -- 17. What i know about dogs -- 18. A note on poetic justice -- 19. After the storm -- 20. In this place long ago -- 21. The house of the man who has no one -- 22. Barbers -- 23. Fires and ruins -- 24. Frankfurter -- 25. Bosphorus ferries -- 26. The islands -- 27. Earthquake -- 28. Earthquake angst in Istanbul -- 29. How i got rid of some of my books -- 30. On reading: words or images -- 31. The pleasures of reading -- 32. Nine notes on book covers -- 33. To read or not to read . . . the thousand and one nights -- 34. Foreword to Tristram Shandy: everyone should have an uncle like this -- 35. Victor Hugo -- 36. The joys of degradation -- 37. The terror of djinns -- 38. The brothers Karamazov -- 39. Cruelty, beauty, time -- 40. Albert Camus -- 41. Patricia Highsmith -- 42. Reading Thomas Bernhard at a time of unhappiness -- 43. The world of Thomas Bernhard's novels -- 44. Mario Vargas Llosa -- 45. In defence of Salman Rushdie -- 46. Pen Arthur Miller speech (with photographs) -- 47. No entry -- 48. Which part of Europe -- 49. An essay on the Mediterranean -- 50. My first passport -- - 51. Andre Gide -- 52. Holiday visits -- 53. Traffic and religion -- 54. In Kars and Frankfurt -- 55. My trial -56. Who do you write for? -57. The white castle afterword -- 58. The black book - 10 years on -- 58. The black book - 10 years on - - 59. A selection from interviews on The new life -- etc.