Istanbul Memories and the City By Orhan Pamuk Material:Soft Cover Now I realize it was

Now I realize it was never a fling

I’m not sure which part is worse

And as if that weren’t enough

And as the lines start to blur

once you felt its touch on your skin

Istanbul Memories and the City By Orhan Pamuk Material:Soft Cover Now I realize it wasA shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the worlds 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 melancholyor hzn that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost Ottoman Empire. As he