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Memories of a City

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Istanbul

Yazan: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
Seslendiren: John Lee
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Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. 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. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy-or hüzün- that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost Ottoman Empire.

As he companionably guides us across the Bosphorus, through Istanbul's historical monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, he also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers.

Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.

©2013 Orhan Pamuk (P)2013 Faber Audio Europe Middle East Sociology Turkey Urban Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Emperyalizm Orta Çağ
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The writer describes Istanbul very evocatively, weaving aspects of his personal history with that of the city. Describing atmosphere is a challenging task, but Pamuk does so in a way which draws out many moods and tensions.

Atmosphere

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Deeply personal and sensitive writer. A great inspiration for an artist or writer. A very honest view of Istanbul and its people.

Brilliant evocation of a young man’s inner world.

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Took me a few chapters to fully get into it but once I did, I really enjoyed and appreciated Pamuk’s genius. The translation and the narration are also very well done.

Brilliant

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Apart from the excellent descriptions of a fascinating city, I found his struggle through painting and then a failed university diploma in architecture very moving. It is this part of the book that brought it alive for me. His eye for his beloved city may well have been aided by his 2 'failed' careers; it is full of lyricism and insight.

Development of a writer

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Excellent memoir dedicated to Istanbul through prism of author‘s family life. There is no exciting or adventurous plot as compated to some of Orhan Pamuk‘s other works like „Strangeness in my mind“. But the novel is full of extraordinary details about local customs, history, architecture and life of people that it makes you feel as if you have experienced it first hand.

Excellent memoir

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