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 A portrait of Istanbul that guides us across the Bosphorus, through Istanbul's historical monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways. It also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers.
