Istanbul
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Istanbul

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eBook - ePub

Istanbul

About this book

Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times
'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the slightest acquaintance with this fabled bridge between east and west.' The Economist
'An irresistibly seductive book' Jan Morris, Guardian

In a surprising and original blend of personal memoir and cultural history, Turkey's most celebrated novelist, Orhan Pamuk, explores his home of more than fifty years.

What begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's greatest cities. Beginning in the family apartment building where he was born, and still lives, Pamuk uses his family secrets to show how they were typical of their time and place. He then guides us through Istanbul's monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, and introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers.

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Praise
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. 1: Another Orhan
  9. 2: The Photographs in the Dark Museum House
  10. 3: Me
  11. 4: The Destruction of the Pashas’ Mansions: A Sad Tour of the Streets
  12. 5: Black and White
  13. 6: Exploring the Bosphorus
  14. 7: Melling’s Bosphorus
  15. 8: My Mother, My Father and Various Disappearances
  16. 9: Another House: Cihangir
  17. 10: HĂŒzĂŒn
  18. 11: Four Lonely Melancholic Writers
  19. 12: My Grandmother
  20. 13: The Joy and Monotony of School
  21. 14: Esaelp gnittips on
  22. 15: Ahmet Rasim and Other City Columnists
  23. 16: Don’t Walk Down the Street with Your Mouth Open
  24. 17: The Pleasures of Drawing
  25. 18: ReƟat Ekrem Koçu’s Collection of Facts and Curiosities: The Istanbul Encyclopedia
  26. 19: Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople
  27. 20: Religion
  28. 21: The Rich
  29. 22: On the Ships that Passed through the Bosphorus, Famous Fires, Moving House and Other Disasters
  30. 23: Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoğlu Walks
  31. 24: Gautier’s Melancholic Strolls through the City’s Poor Neighbourhoods
  32. 25: Under Western Eyes
  33. 26: The HĂŒzĂŒn of the Ruins: Tanpınar and Yahya Kemal in the City’s Poor Neighbourhoods
  34. 27: The Picturesque and the Outlying Neighbourhoods
  35. 28: Painting Istanbul
  36. 29: Painting and Family Happiness
  37. 30: The Smoke Rising from Ships on the Bosphorus
  38. 31: Flaubert in Istanbul: East, West and Syphilis
  39. 32: Fights with My Older Brother
  40. 33: A Foreigner in a Foreign School
  41. 34: To be Unhappy is to Hate Oneself and One’s City
  42. 35: First Love
  43. 36: The Ship on the Golden Horn
  44. 37: A Conversation With my Mother: Patience, Caution and Art
  45. About the Photographs
  46. Index: Istanbul
  47. General Index
  48. About the Author
  49. By the Same Author
  50. CopyrightÂ