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Body Count

Body Count
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • 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...

city-pick Istanbul

city-pick Istanbul
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes (Editor)
  • 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.

Istanbul

Istanbul
  • Author(s): Richard Tillinghast
  • 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...

Istanbul Istanbul

Istanbul Istanbul
  • Author(s): Burhan Sönmez
  • 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

Istanbul Memories and the City
  • Author(s): Orhan Pamuk
  • 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.

Istanbul Passage

Istanbul Passage
  • Author(s): Jospeh Kanon
  • 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...

Like A Sword Wound

Like A Sword Wound
  • Author(s): Ahmet Altan
  • 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...

Portrait of a Turkish Family

Portrait of a Turkish Family
  • Author(s): Irfan Orga
  • 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

The Abyssinian Proof

The Abyssinian Proof
  • Author(s): Jenny White
  • 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...

The Architect’s Apprentice

The Architect’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • 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...

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