BY ORHAN PAMUK
Through the
descriptions of other writers -- several Turkish masters, various traveling
foreigners -- Pamuk parades yet more double-images of the Istanbul he knows.
As
seen by the poet Yahya Kemal or the historian and encyclopedist Resat Ekrem
Kocu, by Gerard de Nerval or Gustave Flaubert, Pamuk's Istanbul keeps unfolding
like a series of Rorschach tests, multiplying its ink-stained ghosts and
tempting the reader with potentially infinite interpretations.
--The Washington Post
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