| |
| | Amazon.co.uk: Istanbul: Books (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Istanbul was Istanbul, a world within itself, indeed, we learn that the author has never lived anywhere else and has never felt the desire to do so. |
 | | Pamuk's Istanbul is a fascinating place and this book is a fascinating book, not least becasue he avoids so many of the western clichés which seem to have defined how even Turks think and write about their home. |
 | | For Parmuk the most defining notion of Istanbul is, Hüzün, a kind of turkish melancholia, but a melancholia that is distinctive to this place, a collective condition rather than the individualstic notion of, say, French tristesse. |
| www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571218326 (1140 words) |
|