Istanbul

By - Pamuk, Orhan

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Faber and Faber, London, 2005

ISBN 10 - 0571218334

ISBN 13 - 9780571218332

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Turkey--Istanbul

Shelf No - 4

Call Number - 949.6180 PAM

Physical Description - 348 pages

Notes - Includes Index

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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 hüzün- 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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