Book Review: Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
2 min readApr 30, 2023
by Amy Rogers. Writer. Scientist.
In 2006, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2016, he started writing a novel about an epidemic of bubonic plague on a fictional Mediterranean island set in 1901 during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. In this novel Nights of Plague Pamuk explores the devastating and unexpected consequences of the plague…