Istanbul: memories and the city
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New York : Vintage International, 2006., 2005.
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Book
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First Vintage international edition.
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xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become "modern" at the crossroads of East and West. Against a background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he charts the evolution of a rich imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous writer he was to become. --From publisher description.
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English
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1400033888, 9781400033881
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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2005.
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Includes index.
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A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood, his first intimations of the melancholy awareness of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become "modern" at the crossroads of East and West. Against a background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he charts the evolution of a rich imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous writer he was to become. --From publisher description.
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Pamuk, O., & Freely, M. (2006). Istanbul: memories and the city. First Vintage international edition. Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- and Maureen Freely. 2006. Istanbul: Memories and the City. Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- and Maureen Freely, Istanbul: Memories and the City. Vintage International, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Pamuk, Orhan and Maureen Freely. Istanbul: Memories and the City. First Vintage international edition. Vintage International, 2006.
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