Book - 3, The New Life

The New Life (1994)

by 

Orhan Pamuk

Book Read : Feb 2015

Note Written : 1 July 2015

I had no plans to read this book but then since I hand no other book at hand then, Priscilla chose this one for me from her bookshelf. I am so glad that she did. 'The New Life' tells the story of a young man whose life got transformed completely by a book he read. It kind of does the same to you too. 'The New Life' is slow placed and written in a 'stream of consciousness' manner. The things that are said really gets to you and you get immersed in the book pretty soon, loosing yourselves in it and wondering so often about reality. The endless bus journeys taken up by the protagonist after being under the influence of the book, the crashes, the deaths, the sights, all affects entices and disturbs the reader too. While and after reading the book I had a strong urge to travel long and far to unknown destinations, just like how the protagonist Osman did- bus stations to bus stations, places to places, without caring about ordinary life - could be impossible for a person like me, but I wish. 'The New Life', I think, gave me a new immersive life in those couple days of reading, took me in like no book ever did till then.