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 also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers.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 an extraordinary city.
| ISBN: | 9780571309702 |
| Publication date: | 16th October 2014 |
| Author: | Orhan Pamuk |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber an imprint of Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Travel writing |
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.
Istanbul features in the following genres: Travel writing
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Istanbul was written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Faber & Faber an imprint of Faber & Faber
Istanbul has 368 pages