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Istanbul

By Orhan Pamuk

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Istanbul

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From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.   "Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
402
Release Date:
2006-07-11
Publication Date:
2006-07-11
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1400033888
ISBN13:
9781400033881
Weight:
447 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
22 cm

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