Istanbul : memories and the city
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2005.
Format
Book
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
949.618 Pam
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949.618 Pam
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
949.618 Pam
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949.618 Pam
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Southside - Adult
949.618 Pam
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949.618 Pam
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Main Library - Adult | 949.618 Pam | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2005.
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
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Description
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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