Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk

Summary of Istanbul

Turkey’s greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul the city of his birth and the home of his imagination.

‘This evocative book succeeds at both its tasks. It is one of the most touching childhood memories I have read in a very longtime; and it makes me yearn- more than any glossy tourist brochure could possibly do- to be once again is Istanbul.’

About The Auhor:

Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy industrialist family, an experience which he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul. He was educated at Robert College in Istanbul. He also studied architecture at the Istanbul Technical University due to family pressures to become an engineer or architect. However, he left the architecture school after three years to become a full-time writer, and graduated from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Istanbul in 1976. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 1985 to 1988, a period which also included a visiting fellowship at the University of Iowa. He returned to Istanbul, where he lived until 2006, when he returned to the US to take up a position as a visiting professor at Columbia. Pamuk is currently a Fellow with Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought and holds an appointment in Columbia's Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and at the School of the Arts.

Pamuk married Aylin Turegen in 1982, but the couple divorced in 2001. They have a daughter named Rüya, whose name means "dream" in Turkish. His older brother, Þevket Pamuk (who sometimes appears as a fictional character in Orhan Pamuk's work), is a historian who is internationally recognized for his work in history of economics. He teaches at Boðaziçi University in Ýstanbul Pamuk started writing regularly in 1974. His first novel, Karanlýk ve Iþýk (Darkness and Light) was a co-winner of the 1979 Milliyet Press Novel Contest (Mehmet Eroðlu (* tr) was the other winner). This novel was published with the title Cevdet Bey ve Oðullarý (Mr. Cevdet and His Sons) in 1982, and won the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize in 1983. It tells the story of three generations of a wealthy Istanbul family living in Niþantaþý, the district of Istanbul where Pamuk grew up.

Pamuk won a number of critical prizes for his early work, including the 1984 Madarali Novel Prize for his second novel Sessiz Ev (The Silent House) and the 1991 Prix de la Découverte Européenne for the French translation of this novel. His historical novel Beyaz Kale (The White Castle), published in Turkish in 1985, won the 1990 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction and extended his reputation abroad. The New York Times Book Review stated, "A new star has risen in the east--Orhan Pamuk." He started experimenting with postmodern techniques in his novels, a change from the strict naturalism of his early works....

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