Orhan Pamuk

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Orhan Pamuk explores his idea of Istanbul, mingling personal memoir with cultural history to evoke his home of fifty years. For Orhan the day-dreaming child, the heart of the great teeming city of Istanbul was the building known as 'Pamuk Apartments', where each branch of his large and extended family occupied its own separate floor. Now the writer Orhan Pamuk revisits his own family's secrets and idiosyncracies, discovering what made them typical of their time and place. And as he companionably guides us through Istanbul's monuments and lost paradises, its' dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, he also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers. Maureen Freely, translator of Istanbul: A Life and a City, will read in English

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