{"product_id":"istanbul-12","title":"Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIstanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A declaration of love.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magnificent, elegiac, impressionistic.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An irresistibly seductive book.' \u003c\/b\u003eJan Morris, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a surprising and original blend of personal memoir and cultural history, Turkey's most celebrated novelist, Orhan Pamuk, explores his home of more than fifty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's greatest cities. Beginning in the family apartment building where he was born, and still lives, Pamuk uses his family secrets to show how they were typical of their time and place. He then guides us through Istanbul's monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, and introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This erudite book manages to be an addictive childhood \u003c\/b\u003ememoir, a museum-in-prose of a city with West in its head but East in its soul, a study of the alchemy between place \u003cb\u003eand self.'\u003c\/b\u003e David Mitchell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54227197264216,"sku":"9780571218332","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571218332.jpg?v=1777104939","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/istanbul-12","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}