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Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past.
Jan 1, 2003 · 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.
The celebrated novelist Orhan Pamuk explores his idea of Istanbul, mingling personal memoir with cultural history to evoke his home of fifty years. After the Ottoman...
Jul 11, 2006 · Istanbul: Memories and the City. Orhan Pamuk. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 11, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages. From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My...
Jul 11, 2006 · In this beautifully crafted memoir, Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk guides us through his home city of Istanbul. But rather than merely encounter the place of his birth, we find a city and people thriving beneath the struggle of their own sense of melancholy. We find life in its most organic and most fragile.
memories and the city Orhan Pamuk presents the reader the interesting story of the city of Istanbul he knows in a novel form, combining it with his own life story until the age of 22. This story, heads from Pamuk’s first feelings related to ‘his own’ to his mother, his father and his family, and as a source of happiness and sadness, opens ...
Apr 6, 2006 · Part memoir, part history lesson, Istanbul - Memories and the City is the perfect read for the would-be travelers, the culturally curious, and the arm-chair escapists, hungry to set their sights on landscapes that are simultaneously foreign and yet deeply personal.
- Orhan Pamuk
