Istanbul Memories Of A City

Istanbul, Through The Mind Of Its Most Celebrated Writer.Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Literaturea Declaration Of Love. Sunday Timesa Fascinating Read For Anyone Who Has Even The Slightest Acquaintance With This Fabled Bridge Between East And West. The Economistan Irresistibly Seductive Book Jan Morris, Guardianin A Surprising And Original Blend Of Personal Memoir And Cultural History, Turkeys Most Celebrated Novelist, Orhan Pamuk, Explores His Home Of More Than Fifty Years.What Begins As A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Becomes A Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The Worlds Greatest Cities. Beginning In The Family Apartment Building Where He Was Born, And Still Lives, Pamuk Uses His Family Secrets To Show How They Were Typical Of Their Time And Place. He Then Guides Us Through Istanbuls Monuments And Lost Paradises, Dilapidated Ottoman Villas, Back Streets And Waterways, And Introduces Us To The Citys Writers, Artists And Murderers.Like Joyces Dublin And Borges Buenos Aires, Pamuks Istanbul Is A Triumphant Encounter Of Place And Sensibility, Beautifully Written And Immensely Moving.