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A shimmering evocation, by changes intimate and breathtaking, of one of the world's great places, by its main writer. Nobel Award champion Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul but still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first organised him in her biceps and triceps. His family portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by recollection and the melancholy - or hüzün - that Istanbullus show: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of any lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk steps from his attractive, disappointed parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions looking over the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the freelance writers and painters - both Turkish and international - who would shape his awareness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant come across of place and sensibility, superbly written and greatly moving.
