His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or–hüzün–that all Istanbullus share: The book's subtitle, Memories and the City, guided me through the chapters, many of which can stand alone, with themes that weave in and out. About Estambul : Ciudad y recuerdos/ Istanbul: Memories and the City. Istanbul : memories and the city. Most of all, it is a book about Bosphorus and Istanbul's history with the strait. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. He lives in Istanbul. The book is illustrated by the photographs of Ara Güler, among other professional photographs, chosen by Pamuk because of the melancholic atmosphere of his pictures. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. There are dozen stories about all the stuff that goes on but he doesn't go into any of them. Pamuk spent his entire life in Istanbul. Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. Experience lunch in the Golan, a taxi ride all over Rhodes, a late night snack in Istanbul, and a wonderful wandering through Mykonos. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul, in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. $26.95. . Please try your request again later. Hello Select your address All Hello, Sign in. Growing up in Istanbul, with a formerly wealthy family that had to move several times as their fortunes waned, Pamuk was initially inclined to be a painter. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition. ISTANBUL: Memories and the City Orhan Pamuk, Author, Maureen Freely, Translator , trans. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. . Orhan Pamuks’s Istanbul: Memories of a City pseudo-memoir weaves an intimate and often meandering portrait of Istanbul and its inhabitant’s collective experience of hüzün. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul, in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. [Orhan Pamuk; Maureen Freely] -- A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2019. Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." 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 still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. Delightful, profound, marvelously original. There's a problem loading this menu right now. -The Washington Post Book World"Far from a conventional appreciation of the city's natural and architectural splendors, Istanbul tells of an invisible melancholy and the way it acts on an imaginative young man, aggrieving him but pricking his … His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or hüzün– that all Istanbullus share: … He starts by describing the city through the eyes of other painters and writers, starting with the Europeans (mostly French) who visited the city from the eighteenth century on. 384 pp. On a windswept afternoon in mid-December, the writer Orhan Pamuk stood in a leafy square around the corner from Istanbul University, absorbed in a 40-year-old memory. Delightful, profound, marvelously original. –The Washington Post Book World"Far from a conventional appreciation of the city's natural and architectural splendors, Istanbul tells of an invisible melancholy and the way it acts on an imaginative young man, aggrieving him but pricking his creativity."