Istanbul - Memories of a City

Informationen zum Autor Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books of fiction, nonfiction, and photography. In 2003 he won the IMPAC prize for M y Name is Red , and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Maureen Freely is an author, translator and teacher. She has written seven novels - including Sailing Through Byzantium, Enlightenment and The Other Rebecca . Also well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, she has brought into English several classics and works by Turkey's rising literary stars. For many years she worked as a journalist in London, writing about literature, social justice, and human rights. As chair of the Translator's Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally. She teaches at the University of Warwick. Klappentext A supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth. Turkey's greatest novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises! dilapidated Ottoman villas! back streets and waterways of Istanbul. Vorwort Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer Zusammenfassung A portrait of Istanbul that guides us across the Bosphorus, through Istanbul's historical monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways. It also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers.

Product details

• Authors: Orhan Pamuk, Pamuk Orhan
• Assisted by: Maureen Freely (Translation), Freely Maureen (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.04.2006
• EAN: 9780571218332
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21833-2
• No. of pages: 343
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 199 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; Faber & Faber Paperbacks
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Türkische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Istanbul : Belletristik (Romane, Erzählungen), TRAVEL / General, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Turkey, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999