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The New Life
1st English translaton
Author	Orhan Pamuk
Original title	Yeni Hayat
Translator	Güneli Gün
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish
Publisher	Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date	1995
Published in English	1998
Pages	296
ISBN	978-0-374-22129-4
OCLC Number	35657984
Dewey Decimal	894/.3533 20
LC Classification	PL248.P34 Y4613 1997

The New Life (Yeni Hayat in Turkish) is a book by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. It was originally published in 1995 and translated to English in 1998 by Güneli Gün.

[edit] Plot

The plot centers around a young engineering student in Istanbul who discovers a "new life" in the pages of a book of the same name. The protagonist is so thrilled by this novel that he sets off in search of the new life it describes, finding a number of other readers who have become similarly consumed as well as a few people who seek to destroy the book because of the effect it has on its followers. No passages from the book are revealed, and readers of the novel are left to hypothesize about its nature through the actions of the main character and other obsessed readers.