Istanbul by O Pamuk

Istanbul by O Pamuk

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.

Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory. --The Washington Post Book World

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 h z n--that all Istanbullus share.

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.

Orhan Pamuk nacio es Estambul, Turquia, en 1952. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2006, realizo estudios de arquitectura y periodismo, y ha pasado largas temporadas en Estados Unidos, en las universidades de Iowa y Columbia. Es autor de las novelas Cevdet Bey e hijos (Literatura Random House, 2013), La casa del silencio (Debolsillo, 2006), El castillo blanco (Literatura Random House, 2007), El libro negro (Debolsillo, 2008), La vida nueva (Debolsillo, 2009), Me llamo rojo (Debolsillo, 2009), Nieve (Debolsillo, 2011), El museo de la inocencia (Literatura Random House, 2009), Una sensacion extrana (Literatura Random House, 2015), asi como de los volumenes de no ficcion Estambul. Ciudad y recuerdos (Literatura Random House, 2006) y La maleta de mi padre (Literatura Random House, 2007) y de la coleccion de ensayos Otros colores (Literatura Random House, 2008). Su exito mundial se desencadeno a partir de los elogios que John Updike dedico a la novela El castillo blanco. Desde entonces ha obtenido numerosos reconocimientos internacionales: el premio al Mejor Libro Extranjero en Francia, el Grinzane Cavour en Italia y el premio internacional IMPAC. Con la publicacion de Nieve, novela por la que en 2006 fue galardonado con el Priz Medicis Etranger, Orhan Pamuk paso a ser objetivo predilecto de los ataques de la prensa nacionalista truca. Con la obtencion del Nobel de Literatura en 2006 su proyeccion internacional se consolido definitivamente, y sus libros han sido traducidos a mas de cuarenta idiomas.

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ISBN 13	9780571227532
ISBN 10	0571227538
Title	Istanbul
Author	O Pamuk
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2005-04-07
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.