A review of Orhan Pamuk’s memoir Istanbul, written in 2005, offers another interesting glimpse into the life and work of the author we have been reading a lot of this semester. The reviewer, Christopher De Bellaigue, writes:
“Pamuk’s achievement in ‘Istanbul’ is to show the human damage done by Ataturk’s revolution without succumbing to the benighted nostalgia of many Turkish Islamists. “
Christopher De Bellaigue, “A Walker in the City,” New York Times Book Review, June 12, 2005
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