"Travel: Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
REVIEWED BY ANTHONY SATTIN
ISTANBUL: Memories of a City
by Orhan Pamuk
trans Maureen Freely
Faber £16.99 pp348
“Istanbul’s fate is my fate,” declares Turkey’s pre-eminent novelist early on in this rich and revealing memoir of life in the city during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. At first the claim seems melodramatic, a wild overstatement, but it soon acquires the ring of truth. For while in some way we are all witnesses to our times, in Orhan Pamuk’s case, he and his city have lived parallel lives, struggling for identity and purpose."
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