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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

'An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling. . . a very tender evocation of Istanbul's moment of dolce vita.' - The Guardian 'Intimate and nuanced.. A classic, spacious love story.' - Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books Kamal lives a life of cosmopolitan glamour, exploring the...

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bed...