SINGAPORE – In Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel, a plague breaks out on a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.
The idea for the book was not sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic – the Turkish Nobel laureate had already been writing it by then – although current events make it seem strangely prophetic.
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