Orhan Pamuk is a Turkishrhan Pamuk is a TurkishNobel Laureate whose talesof the Turkish past havecaught the world attention.As a novelist who loves todabble in history of his country, Pamuk’s textscelebrate the country’s past and the glory and thepain that is often attached to the memories of afallen empire. The sense of loss, the agony of theforgotten, and the quest for missed meanings andopportunities are recurrent themes in his writing.This paper looks at his narratives of loss and thelost and tries to decipher the reason and use of thisarchetype and how it supplements and enriches hisnarratives.Keywords: History – loss – memory –narratology – nation.