Istanbul: Memories and the City

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a*portrait of Istanbul*by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.**

"Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." -The Washington Post Book World

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and ...