It was, the writer says, the impression that guided his imagination of the pink-stone Arkaz Castle on the fictional Ottoman island of Mingheria, a “pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea”, between Istanbul and Alexandria, and the site of action in his novel. The entry on Amber Fortis part of the book, but it also has resonance with his newest novel, Nights of Plague (Penguin Hamish Hamilton, Rs 799), that releases in India this week. Some of these have just been published as Memories of Distant Mountains, an art book in Turkish and French. For over 15 years, he has maintained illustrated journals, detailing his travels and artistic impressions of places and events. He had been speaking of art and influences and how it had once been the vocation he had dreamt of, when Turkey’s foremost cultural ambassador to the world stops midway to rifle through his desk and pick out the diary. Below it, in a neat hand in Turkish, Orhan Pamuk has written about his visit to Amber Fort in Jaipur in 2011. The yellow journal that he holds close to the computer screen has an illustration of a sandstonefort, sketched in detail.
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