İstanbul

Author

Orhan Pamuk

Language

Turkish

Year

2003

Country

Turkey

Genre

Long-Form Journalism (Memoir, Firsthand Account, or Reportage)

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Istanbul: Memories and the City is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition. Most of all, it is a book about Bosphorus and Istanbul's history with the strait. It was translated into English by Maureen Freely in 2005.