And on each floor you discover a wealth of objects, carefully hidden behind vitrines: lipsticks, a girl’s shoe, ceramic dogs, soda bottles, old cologne bottles, vintage photographs of people long forgotten, toothpaste, and false teeth in a glass of water. There is something otherworldly, almost ghostly about this house, especially during evenings and nights when it seems abandoned in the dark.Īs soon as you enter you realize that this a rather special place, a museum. It has an unusual dark red color, and the windows hint at the fact that no one actually lives here. On the corner of Çukurcuma Street and Dalgiç Street, just a few blocks down from the hammam, there is a house that fits in perfectly - and yet it doesn’t.
Then there are the cats: they are ubiquitous, dreaming their days away on car roofs. Antique stores are typical for this quarter, and over the past couple of years, gourmet coffee shops have sprung up on almost every block. Though quite central, just a short walk from the Bosporus or Taksim square, it has survived the recent wave of modernization: its many wooden houses in different colors give it a similar aura to the photos taken some 50 years ago, except that the cobblestones have mostly given way to more modern paving. With this book, he literally puts love in our hands" (The Washington Post).Çukurcuma is an unusual neighborhood on the European side of Istanbul.
A resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation. Orhan Pamuk’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring exploration of the nature of romance. In his pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress-amassing a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. A classic, spacious love story” (Pico Iyer,The New York Review of Books). First edition of this “intimate and nuanced….
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