Onze boeken

Istanbul: Memories and the City DELUXE EDITION

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#375499-XJ26
Titel	Istanbul: Memories and the City DELUXE EDITION
Auteur	Pamuk, Orhan
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf
Jaar van uitgave	2017
ISBN10	1524732230
ISBN13	9781524732233
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with numerous (full page) photographs in b/w, small 4to.
Samenvatting	From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction. 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 melancholy--or hüzün--that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters--both Turkish and foreign--w... (Lees verder)ho would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
Pagina's	560
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

Onze gebruikte boeken verkeren in goede tweedehands staat, tenzij hierboven anders beschreven. Kleine onvolkomenheden zijn niet altijd vermeld.