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Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition.
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 is a 1995 non-fiction book by Philip Mansel, covering Constantinople (now Istanbul) during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The author hoped to show positive aspects of the Ottoman Empire while acknowledging some negative aspects. [1]
John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd's classic guidebook, Strolling Through Istanbul. Freely was the author of more than 40 books, many of them either histories of Istanbul and Turkey, accounts of the lives of significant figures of the Ottoman Empire or travel guides, especially about Istanbul.
Orhan Pamuk has called De Amicis's work the best book written about Istanbul in the nineteenth century, [1] [4] while Umberto Eco stated that De Amicis' description of the city was the most cinematic, [5] and himself used the guide when visiting Constantinople. [1] Jason Goodwin has described the work as a real Victorian tour de force. [4]
In the Turkish edition of National Geographic Magazine in 2002, and later in the book Istanbul: Memories and the City, writer Orhan Pamuk identified Koçu as "homosexual." In a response to Pamuk's work, the historian Murat Bardakçi also identified Koçu as homosexual, but stated he belonged to a specific category of male sexual subjectivity ...
The displays include a large glass case containing 4,213 cigarette butts, each smoked by Füsun, a collection of salt shakers, and paintings and maps of the Istanbul streets where the narrative takes place. [5] [4] Everything in the museum's four floors references the novel and the era in which the book is set. [5]
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International Istanbul Film Festival begins. Istanbul Book Fair inaugurated. Atatürk High School of Science, Istanbul established. World Trade Center Istanbul established. Timas Publishing Group established. İletişim Yayınları publishing company established. Kaynak Yayınları publishing company established. Malta Kiosk restored and re-opened.