Istanbul

"I'm not going to be an artist," I said. "I'm going to be a writer."

Thus ends *Istanbul*, the book by the writer who knows how to paint with words. A declaration of love for the city known as the “apple of the world,” a story in which beauty and sadness, tenderness, hope, and strength of spirit coexist naturally—a tale of the coming-of-age and the intertwining of an extraordinary individual with an extraordinary city. Orhan Pamuk’s portrait of the city, straddling two continents, is at the same time a self-portrait, refracted through the memories and melancholy of all Istanbullus living in the shadow of a former empire.

"In this age of forgeries, when some people's faith in literature may be shaken, Cotton "offers something genuine."
Observer

"Pamuk breathes new life and freshness into the world we thought we knew."
New York Times

Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.