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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.
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 ...
Beyazıt State Library (Turkish: Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi; formerly known as the Ottoman Public Library) is a book depositary and digital library in Istanbul. [2] One of Turkey's oldest libraries, it is the first national library of Ottoman manuscripts and one of the country's six legal deposit libraries.
The first book was donated by the Köprülü family, and the number of available books continued to increase with further donations and purchases. Of all the donations to the library, those by Köprülü Mehmet Pasha , Fazil Ahmet Pasa , Haci (Hafiz) Ahmet Pasha , and Mehmet Asim Bey were among the most substantial.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Bastard of Istanbul; Behemoth (novel) The Black Book (Pamuk novel)
The museum and the novel were created in tandem, centred on the stories of two Istanbul families. On 17 May 2014, the museum was announced as the winner of the 2014 European Museum of the Year Award. [1] The narrative and the museum offer a glimpse into upper-class Istanbul life from the 1970s to the early 2000s. [2]
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]