ISTANBUL: MEMORIES AND THE CITY -- 27

BY ORHAN PAMUK

As with himself and the picture of his "other," Pamuk suggests, Istanbul is haunted by another Istanbul, a shadowy presence in the shadows. 

He sees the city in black and white, mirrored in the ancient engravings and old photographs that illustrate the book -- 

a city in which ruined buildings conjure up the ghosts of their former selves and stately monuments insinuate their future collapse.

--The Washington Post