Istanbul Memories of a City

Informationen zum Autor Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul, Snow, A Strangeness in My Mind and Nights of Plague . In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name Is Red , and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Museum of Innocence was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling'. Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul. 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Orhan Pamuk, Pamuk Orhan
• Con la collaborazione di: Maureen Freely (Traduzione), Freely Maureen (Traduzione)
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 06.04.2006
• Categoria: Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio > Europa
• EAN: 9780571218332
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21833-2
• Numero di pagine: 343
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.7 x 19.9 x 2.3 cm
• Serie: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; Faber & Faber Paperbacks
• Categorie: 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, Constantinople, istanbul travel guide, Nobel Prize for literature winners, The Architects Apprentice Elif Shafak, Memories of Distant Mountains