Isztambul

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Binding method: hardcover, with protective cover
Publication: 2018
Publisher: Helikon Publishing
Page number: 400
Pamuk's memoir is a dazzling portrait of a city imbued with history, mysterious atmosphere and artistic sensibility, a nostalgic evocation of a bygone civilization and a meditation on life's most intimate questions.
The city portrait is also a self-portrait: while the author ponders the peculiar fate of Istanbul, looking at old engravings and photographs, he evokes its imperial past, looks at its ruined present with painful love, admires its great writers, and tries to decipher the character of all Istanbulites...