In “Istanbul,” Mr. Pamuk captured the
melancholy, or huzun, that infused the metropolis during his boyhood, when it
was still suffering a long decline after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
He
described “the old Bosporus ferries moored to deserted stations in the middle
of winter ... the old booksellers who lurch from one financial crisis to the
next and then wait shivering all day for a customer to return.”
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