Orhan Pamuk—izvestnyy tureckiy pisatel', obladatel' mnogochislennyh nacional'nyh i mezhdunarodnyh premiy, v chisle kotoryh Nobelevskaya premiya po literature. V centre samogo zagadochnogo romana pisatelya «Novaya zhizn'»—tainstvennaya Kniga, kotoraya vybiraet chitatelya samostoyatel'no i lishaet ego vsekh privychnyh zhiznennyh orientirov, vozbuzhdaya nepreodolimuyu strast' k puteshestviyu i poiski drugoy, bolee istinnoy real'nosti. Prochitav Knigu, student Osman otpravlyaetsya v puteshestvie po Turcii. Peresazhivayas' s avtobusa na avtobus, brodya po pustynnym pyl'nym dorogam, otdyhaya v zabroshennyh na kray mira kafe, on dvizhetsya vpered, «vot-vot ozhidaya poznat' taynu skrytoy, nikem ne poznannoy geometrii, imenuemoy zhizn'yu».
