Orhan Pamuk,Maureen Freely
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the worldâ€™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 melancholyâ€“or,â€“hÃ¼zÃ¼nâ€“,that all ,Istanbullus, share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. ,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 paintersâ€“both Turkish and foreignâ€“who would shape his consciousness of his city. ,Like Joyceâ€™s Dublin and Borgesâ€™ Buenos Aires, Pamukâ€™s ,Istanbul ,is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
Nonfiction,Travel,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,History,Cultural,Turkish,Asian Literature,Turkish Literature,Biography,Autobiography,Literature,Nobel Prize
Istanbul: Memories and the City