伊SI坦布尔是一个熠熠生辉的地方，拥有重要的作家，时而亲切，时而全景，让人想起世界上伟大的城市之一。2006年诺贝尔奖得主奥尔罕·帕慕克出生在伊SI坦布尔的家庭公寓里，他的母亲第一次把他抱在怀里就是在那里。因此，他对这座城市的描绘也是一幅自画像，被记忆和所有伊SI坦布尔人所共有的忧郁折射出来:生活在失去的奥斯曼帝国废墟中的悲伤。

他友好地带领我们穿越博斯普鲁斯海峡，参观伊SI坦布尔的历史古迹和失落的天堂，破旧的奥斯曼别墅，小巷和水道，他还向我们介绍了这座城市的作家、艺术家和杀人犯。就像乔伊斯和简??莫里斯笔下的威尼斯的都柏林一样，帕慕克笔下的伊SI坦布尔是地方与情感的完美邂逅，文笔优美，令人感动。

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul, in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy-or huzun- that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost Ottoman Empire.

As he companionably guides us across the Bosphorus, through Istanbul's historical monuments and lost paradises, its dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, he also introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers. Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.