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Istanbul: Memories of a City

Istanbul: Memories of a City

by Maureen Freely (Translator), Maureen Freely (Translator), Orhan Pamuk (Author)

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Synopsis

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul, 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 huzun- that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost Ottoman Empire. As he companionably guides us across the Bosphorus, through Istanbul's historical monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, he also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers. Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 348
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 06 Apr 2006
ISBN 10: 0571218334
ISBN 13: 9780571218332
Book Overview: Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's winner of the Nobel Prize and author of My Name is Red, is the perfect guide to his home city, Istanbul.
 Prizes: Shortlisted for British Book Awards: History Book of the Year 2006 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005.

Media Reviews
'This evocative book succeeds at both its tasks. It is one of the most touching childhood memoirs I have read in a very long time; and it makes me yearn - more than any glossy tourist brochure could possibly do - to be once again in Istanbul.' Noel Malcom, Sunday Telegraph 'An extraordinary and transcendentally beautiful book... It is a long time since I have read a book of such crystalline originality, or one that moved me so much.' Katie Hickman
Author Bio
Orhan Pamuk, is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.