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
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 painters–both
Turkish and foreign–who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s
Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of
place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
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