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- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Any bloody death will lead Inspectors Çetin Ikmen and Mehmet Süleyman out onto the dark streets of Istanbul. On 21 January, a half-decapitated corpse in the poor multicultural district of Tarlabasi poses a particularly frustrating and gruesome mystery. But...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Another gem from Oxygen books. A collection of writing from different authors, that brings the city to life through fiction.
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Istanbul, City of Forgetting and Remembering, by Richard Tillinghast, is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Jan Morris. The author is an old Istanbul hand who first visited there...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Translated by Ümit Hussein “A wrenching love poem to Istanbul told between torture sessions by four prisoners in their cell beneath the city. An ode to pain in which Dostoevsky meets The Decameron.” —John Ralston Saul, author of On...
Istanbul Memories and the City
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s-1970s
Ekren Koçu devoted most of his life, between the 50’s and the 70’s, to compiling an encyclopedia of Istanbul. Pamuk brings the city to life through his oberservations.
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Post WW2
How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to be made? A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul survived WW2 as a magnet for refugees and spies, trafficking in secrets and lies rather...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th / 20th Centuries
Altan’s Ottoman Quartet spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the post-WWI rise of Ataturk as both unchallenged leader and visionary reformer of the new Turkey. The four books tell the stories of...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
A haunting evocation of a childhood in late Ottoman/early Republican Turkey and the abrupt collapse of a single family’s fortunes
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
The Ottoman Empire is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches that, within days, appear for sale in Europe. Among them is a reliquary, presumed lost for four hundred years and around which an elaborate and mysterious...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare and valuable white...