"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed." So begins the new novel by acclaimed Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk called "The New Life." Critics in the same sentence compare Pamuk's writing to that of Nabakov, Borges, Proust, and Garcia-Marquez. "The New Life" is about a Turkish engineering student whose existence is magically transformed and uprooted by love, political conspiracy, travel and danger simply by the act of reading a book. It's relatively rare that American readers encounter a Turkish novel, much less a Turkish novelist in person, but that's precisely what will happen tonight at the Hungry Mind in St. Paul when Pamuk makes a scheduled stop on his book tour promoting "The New Life." Pamuk says although he's probably the first Turkish author to do an American book tour, he doesn't consider himself an ambassador.