Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk · 2003 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · Turkish · Contemporary

Pamuk recalls growing up in a divided household in the Pamuk Apartments and in a city still marked by the loss of Ottoman grandeur. He sets his own youth beside the writers, painters and foreign visitors who described the Bosphorus, and names the collective melancholy of the place hüzün. A memoir that is also a portrait of a city, written before most of his readers outside Turkey knew it.

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