Title: Istanbul
Author: Orhan Pamuk

Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Faber
ISBN: 0571218326
Format: Hardback 348 pages

The celebrated novelist Orhan Pamuk explores the idea of Istanbul, mongling personal memoir with cultural history to evoke his home of fifty years.

In a beautiful and quite riveting fashion, Pamuk transforms the form of autobiography, and what begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a portrait of an extraordinary city.

Recommended.

Price: £16.99