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A Portrait, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World's Great Cities, By Its Foremost Man Of Letters. Blending Reminiscence With History; Family Photographs With Portraits Of Poets And Pashas; Art Criticism, Metaphysical Musing, And, Now And Again, A Fanciful Tale, Pamuk Invents An Ingenious Form To Evoke His Lifelong Home, The City That Forged His Imagination. He Begins With His Childhood, His First Intimations Of The Melancholy Awareness Of Living In The Seat Of Ruined Imperial Glories, In A Country Trying To Become Modern At The Crossroads Of East And West. Against A Background Of Shattered Monuments, Neglected Villas, Ghostly Backstreets, And, Above All, The Fabled Waters Of The Bosphorus, He Charts The Evolution Of A Rich Imaginative Life, Which Furnished A Daydreaming Boy Refuge From Family Discord And Inner Turmoil, And Which Would Continue To Serve The Famous Writer He Was To Become. --from Publisher Description. Another Orhan -- The Photographs In The Dark Museum House -- Me -- The Destruction Of The Pashas' Mansions: A Sad Tour Of The Streets -- Black And White -- Exploring The Bosphorus -- Melling's Bosphorus Landscapes -- My Mother, My Father, And Various Dis

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Author

Orhan Pamuk

Publisher

Knopf; Distributed by Random House

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400033881

Category

travel

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Travel

Rating

3.77 / 5 (98 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13