Winner of the nobel Prize in Literature 2006.

CHAPTER ONE: Another Orhan CHAPTER TWO: The Photographs in the Dark Museum House CHAPTER THREE: "Me" CHAPTER FOUR: The Destruction of the Pashas' Mansions: A Sad Tour of the Streets CHAPTER FIVE: Black and White CHAPTER six: Exploring the Bosphorus CHAPTER SEVEN: Melling's Bosphorus Landscapes CHAPTER EIGHT: My Mother, My Father, and Various Disappearances CHAPTER NINE: Another House: Cihangir CHAPTER TEN: Hii^iin ixx Contents CHAPTER ELEVEN: Four Lonely Melancholic Writers CHAPTER TWELVE: My Grandmother CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Joy and Monotony of School CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Esaelp Gnittips On CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Ahmet Rasim and Other City Columnists CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Don't Walk down the Street with Your Mouth Open CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Pleasures of Painting CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Resat F.krem Kogu's Collection of Facts and Curiosities: The Istanbul Encyclopedia CHAPTER NINETEEN: Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople CHAPTER TWENTY: Religion CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Rich CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: On the Ships That Passed Through the Bosphorus, Famous Fires, Moving House, and Other Disasters Contents xi CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoğlu Walks 218 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Gautier's Melancholic Strolls Through the City 224 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Under Western Eyes 234 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Melancholy of the Ruins: Tanpinar and Yahya Kemal in the City's Poor Neighborhoods 245 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The Picturesque and die Oudying Neighborhoods 254 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Painting Istanbul 265 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Painting and Family Happiness 273 CHAPTER THIRTY: The Smoke Rising from Ships on the Bosphorus 278 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Flaubert in Istanbul: East, West, and Syphilis 286 CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Fights with My Older Brother 294 CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: A Foreigner in a Foreign School 302 CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: TO Be Unhappy Is to Hate Oneself and One's City 317xii Contents CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: First Love 325 CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: The Ship on the Golden Horn 342 CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: A Conversation with My Mother: Patience, Caution, and Art 355 About the Photographs 371 Index 375