Istanbul: Memoirs of a City
by Orhan Pamuk
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571218326
- ISBN 13
- 9780571218325
- Seller
-
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, UK, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 348 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Faber and Faber, UK, 2005. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are lightly browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The celebrated novelist 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, with his unique sense of history and extraordinary gift for narrative, revisits his own family's secrets and idiosyncrasies, 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 introduces the writers, artists, columnists and mad popular historians who have tracked Istanbul through one hundred and fifty years of 'modernisation'.And so, in a beautiful and quite riveting fashion, Pamuk transforms the form of autobiography, and what begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a portrait of the artist as a city. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; ISBN: 0571218326. ISBN/EAN: 9780571218325. Inventory No: 24030126.. 9780571218325
Synopsis
Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbul.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24030126
- Title
- Istanbul: Memoirs of a City
- Author
- Orhan Pamuk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571218326
- ISBN 13
- 9780571218325
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Travel & Places; Istanbul: Memoirs of a City
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Places;
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