New life

"I read a book at some point and my whole life changed" is how Orhan Pamuk's unconventional novel "The New Life" begins, and with it, the protagonist's journey begins to search for the influence of this book on those who read it before him. In this journey, the author skillfully combines romance, philosophy, and mysteries; the reader wonders about the nature of this book that changed the hero's life, and who is the girl who accompanied him on his journey through his city, which combines historical authenticity and Western modernity in a unique blend. "The New Life" is a text open to the past and the present; aiming to reread them in a new perspective freed from preconceptions, seeing the mind as the path to the freedom of discovery, and shaping a new relationship with life, through the journey of the novel's protagonists: "Janan," the girl with whom the hero first saw the book, and the narrator whose name will only be revealed in the second half of the novel. Through this journey and the adventures they undertake in Istanbul, the hero sails in search of a new life worthy of the book that changed his life.. So, do readers of "The New Life" change their lives through reading it?