Istanbul: Memories and the City.
First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
Istanbul: Memories and the City.
PAMUK, Orhan.
Item Number: 123893
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of this “delightful, profound, marvelously original work” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page. Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the title page, front panel and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or hüzün– that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters–both Turkish and foreign–who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving
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