One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. The Authorįerit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Anyone who loves going through ancient history, lifestyle and some beautiful memories amidst them, this book is a must read.' - Google Review. So soothing, poetic and the words brought out the visuals in my mind. ' One beautiful memoir with pure essence of writer’s childhood. It is a long time since I have read a book of such crystalline originality, or one that moved me so much.' - Katie Hickman.

'An extraordinary and transcendentally beautiful book. It is one of the most touching childhood memoirs I have read in a very long time and it makes me yearn - more than any glossy tourist brochure could possibly do - to be once again in Istanbul.' - Noel Malcom, Sunday Telegraph. ' This evocative book succeeds at both its tasks.

Published : 2005 (This Edition 2006 - Faber & Faber) From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction.

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. 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.Īs 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.

Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, who was born & raised in Istanbul. Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer.

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