Nights of Plague

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781984897619 Author(s): Orhan Pamuk Format: Paperback Year: 2023 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Pages: 704

Description: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epicâa bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.It is April 1900 on the imaginary island of Mingheriaâa state of the Ottoman Empireâlocated between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives, the island revolts.To stop the epidemic, an accomplished quarantine expert races to the island, but not everyone is happy with the precautions or the quarantine he enforces. What follows is a shocking murder. The plague continues its rapid spread and stricter quarantine measures are declared, but the incompetence of the islandâs governor, increased hostility between the two religions, and the peopleâs refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure. As the death count rises to insurmountable amounts, warships blockade the island to keep the disease from spreading. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves.Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.

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