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Istanbul: Memories and the City

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Istanbul’s soulful symphony: history interlaced with personal memoir.

"Istanbul: Memories and the City" is a sensory journey through the grandiose and the intimate alleyways of Istanbul, navigated by Orhan Pamuk, a writer deeply rooted in its cobblestones and caressed by its hüzün, that collective melancholy of its people. His narratives are both a mirror to his upbringing and a tapestry of the city's historical grandeur and its modern-day struggles, offering a rich, textured understanding of place through one's life experiences. Pamuk's memoir blurs the line between a city biography and a personal retrospective, giving you an affectionate, nuanced portrait no ordinary guidebook could deliver.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography/Memoir (2005)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2005)
  • Metų verstinė knyga (2009)
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Istanbul: Memories and the City

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ISBN: 9780571218332
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date of Publication: 2006-04-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Goodreads rating: 3.82
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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. 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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Istanbul’s soulful symphony: history interlaced with personal memoir.

"Istanbul: Memories and the City" is a sensory journey through the grandiose and the intimate alleyways of Istanbul, navigated by Orhan Pamuk, a writer deeply rooted in its cobblestones and caressed by its hüzün, that collective melancholy of its people. His narratives are both a mirror to his upbringing and a tapestry of the city's historical grandeur and its modern-day struggles, offering a rich, textured understanding of place through one's life experiences. Pamuk's memoir blurs the line between a city biography and a personal retrospective, giving you an affectionate, nuanced portrait no ordinary guidebook could deliver.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography/Memoir (2005)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2005)
  • Metų verstinė knyga (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.