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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's ‘Five Cities’ was first published in Turkish as ‘Beş Şehir’ in 1946 and revised in 1960. It consists of five essays, each focused on a city significant in Anatolian history and in Tanpinar's emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and memory, ‘Five Cities’ is Proustian in style, with a tension between a backward-looking melancholy and a concern for the unpredictable future of the author’s country. Comparable to Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Istanbul: Memories of a City’, ‘Five Cities’ emphasizes personal attitudes and reactions but has a wider scope of geography, history and culture.



Trade Review

Five Cities, ably translated by Ruth Christie, is a first-rate achievement and an important addition to any collection in which Turkey features prominently.
—Vince Czyz, Arts Fuse



Table of Contents

1. Ankara; 2. Erzurum; 3. Konya; 4. Bursa; 5. Istanbul;

Tanpinar's ‘Five Cities’

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    A Paperback / softback by Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar, Ruth Christie

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      Publisher Anthem Press
      Published 15 November 2018
      ISBN-13 9781783088485
      978-1783088485
      ISBN-10 1783088486

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's ‘Five Cities’ was first published in Turkish as ‘Beş Şehir’ in 1946 and revised in 1960. It consists of five essays, each focused on a city significant in Anatolian history and in Tanpinar's emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and memory, ‘Five Cities’ is Proustian in style, with a tension between a backward-looking melancholy and a concern for the unpredictable future of the author’s country. Comparable to Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Istanbul: Memories of a City’, ‘Five Cities’ emphasizes personal attitudes and reactions but has a wider scope of geography, history and culture.



      Trade Review

      Five Cities, ably translated by Ruth Christie, is a first-rate achievement and an important addition to any collection in which Turkey features prominently.
      —Vince Czyz, Arts Fuse



      Table of Contents

      1. Ankara; 2. Erzurum; 3. Konya; 4. Bursa; 5. Istanbul;

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