ISTANBUL, THROUGH THE MIND OF ITS MOST CELEBRATED WRITER
** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
'A DECLARATION OF LOVE.' Sunday Times
'A FASCINATING READ FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVEN THE SLIGHTEST ACQUAINTANCE
WITH THIS FABLED BRIDGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST.' The Economist
'AN IRRESISTIBLY SEDUCTIVE BOOK' Jan Morris, Guardian
In a surprising and original blend of personal memoir and cultural
history, Turkey's most celebrated novelist, Orhan Pamuk, explores his
home of more than fifty years.
What begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a
shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the
world's greatest cities. Beginning in the family apartment building
where he was born, and still lives, Pamuk uses his family secrets to
show how they were typical of their time and place. He then guides us
through Istanbul's monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman
villas, back streets and waterways, and introduces us to the city's
writers, artists and murderers.
Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a
triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and
immensely moving.
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ISBN
9780571266197
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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