Istanbul: Memories and the City by Pamuk, Orhan

Istanbul: Memories and the City

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of...
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Author: Orhan Pamuk
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Istanbul: Memories and the City by Pamuk, Orhan

Istanbul: Memories and the City

$214.32

Istanbul: Memories and the City

$214.32
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/11/2006
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.28w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781400033881


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/23/2006 pg. 20

About the Author
Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbul.

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