Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk anthology with the cryptic word Rache

with the cryptic word Rache written in blood

races and horses he's known

They can convince anyone about anything and lure them with their charm

Our ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope

but she has little time to celebrate

Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk anthology with the cryptic word RacheFrom the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. "Delightful, profound, marvelously origina. Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the worlds great cities, by its foremost writer.