| Istanbul Contributor(s): Pamuk, Orhan (Author), Demirel, Savas (Translator), Gay-Aksoy, Valerie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 2070358607 ISBN-13: 9782070358601 Publisher: Gallimard Education OUR PRICE: $27.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: October 2008 Annotation: Weaving history with observations of people, places, and art, Pamuk shows Istanbul's transformation from the seat of faded imperial glory to the capital of a modern nation at the dizzying crossroads of East and West. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: 949.618 |
| Series: Folio |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 4.3" W x 7" (0.70 lbs) 547 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - Turkey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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"u"z"u"n-" 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. |