Readers may be interested in the following books, which have been added to stock at Galway City Library:

Other Colors: Essays and a Story, by Orhan Pamuk

This is Orhan Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize. 'Other Colors' is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces - personal, critical, and meditative - the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy. Pamuk's style is plain, simple and persuasive - but therein lies its subtle power.

Notebooks, by Tennessee Williams

The greatest American playwright? Regardless of one's personal thoughts on his ultimate ranking, Tennessee Williams was inarguably great. For the first time his complete journals are now being published. These entries showcase the budding artist who was plagued with insecurities, increasing drug dependency and an equally destructive addiction to celebrity, but his loyalty to his work remained so strong that he was still able to write 'The Glass Menagerie', 'A Streetcar Named Desire', 'The Rose Tattoo' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' all between 1945 and 1955 - the period that reflects the bulk of these notebooks.

The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy: A New Translation, by Aliki Barnstone

Cavafy wrote some of the most powerful poems in world literature. He draws on the spectrum of Greek poetic tradition to write wickedly satirical yet internal poetry, whether his speaker is a spoiled rich boy planning to enter politics or a poor, ostracised, pure young man destroyed by poverty and priggish social mores. Excellent as previous versions have been, Barnstone's translations are the most immediate of all. Gerald Stern (foreword) attributes Cavafy's impact to the 'tender humanism' he shares with such peers as Yeats, Rilke and Stevens.

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