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A supremely moving account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth. Turkey's greatest novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul.
Synopsis
Guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of the author's birth and the home of his imagination. This is an account of one man's love affair with the city that has been his home since his birth.
