With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of 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. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy-or hzn-that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction.
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