A review by abdelrahmanm93
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

4.0

Pamuk's vivid prose beautifully captures the sense and meaning of the city's melancholy which I myself have struggled to make sense of as an Istanbullu-cum-yabanci; it is one of these things you feel in the air, but nonetheless fail to precisely describe. It's a unique piece of literature, to say the least, that skillfully accommodates a personal narrative within the larger plot of the city's history and present melancholy state in a quite seamless fashion.