Istanbul Author:Orhan Pamuk Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul -- the city of his birth and home of this imagination. — An irresistibly seductive book, and its seduction lies not in the author's self-portrait, but in his poetical identification with Istanbul... more ». His novels have already made him celebrated throughout the world, but perhaps he will be most remembered for this wistful memorial to the city of his heart.« less