IstanbulBy: Orhan Pamuk Series: Vintage International From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. "Delightful, profound, marvelously origina. Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the