The book "Istanbul, City of Memories" by Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk's unique memoir novel "Istanbul: City of Memories" is an interweaving of the writer's stories, his childhood and his beloved city of Istanbul. In this book, the author has collected more than three hundred photographs, archival materials from different photographers, from a family album, drawings and engravings from different periods. Thanks to these photographs, the book resembles an archive, including both written and visual evidence.

Thanks to autobiographical details, the reader gets to know the life of the writer Orhan Pamuk better, and understands his style better. In addition, Pamuk includes such personal, literary and literary details in the book that thanks to this book, the reader can more easily decipher his great literary works ("Black Book", "Silent House", "Museum of Innocence", etc.). Somewhere complex, deep historical facts and details of personal life and childhood complement each other, presenting the reader with a unique synthesis of photographs, text and memories.