Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague feels eerily prescient

  • Written by: Jane Turner Goldsmith, PhD candidate, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague feels eerily prescientWorkers disinfect Istanbul's Suleymaniye Mosque in 2020.Tolga Bozoglu/EPA

Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk spent five years working on Nights of Plague, well before the onset of the current pandemic. Perhaps he foresaw history repeating itself; the political fallout from the outbreak of the bubonic plague on his make-believe island of...

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