BY ORHAN PAMUK
"Here
we come to the heart of the matter," he says early in the book.
"I've
never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my
childhood."
Such a city becomes the inhabitant's in more senses than one.
"To Be Unhappy Is to Hate Oneself and One's City" is the title Pamuk
gives the 34th chapter.
The reader must therefore deduce that he is not an
unhappy man, because Istanbul is a book by a man in love.
--The Washington Post
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