Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
'From a very young age, I knew I was not alone: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me that he could pass for my twin, even my double...' For Orhan the day-dreaming child, the heart of the great teeming city of Istanbul was the building known as 'Pamuk Apartments', where each branch of his large and extended family occupied its own separate floor. Now the writer Orhan Pamuk, with his unique sense of history and extraordinary gift for narrative, revisits his own family's secrets and idiosyncracies, discovering what made them typical of their time and place. And as he companionably guides us through Istanbul's monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, he introduces the writers, artists, columnists and mad popular historians who have tracked Istanbul through one hundred and fifty years of 'modernisation'. And so, in a beautiful and quite riveting fashion, Pamuk transforms the form of autobiography, and what begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a portrait of the artist as a city.
Orhan Pamuk is the author of many books, including The White Castle, The Black Book and The New Life. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2004 Faber published the translation of his novel Snow. Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571218325 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571218326 |
| Title | Istanbul |
| Author | Orhan Pamuk |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2005-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for British Book Awards: History Book of the Year 2006, 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. |
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