NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE FINANCIAL TIMES • THE NEW YORKERA new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.     It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half t