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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Chapter One: Another Orhan
Chapter Two: The Photographs in the Dark Museum House
Chapter Three: “Me”
Chapter Four: The Destruction of the Pashas’ Mansions: A Sad Tour of the Streets
Chapter Five: Black and White
Chapter Six: Exploring the Bosphorus
Chapter Seven: Melling’s Bosphorus Landscapes
Chapter Eight: My Mother, My Father, and Various Disappearances
Chapter Nine: Another House: Cihangir
Chapter Ten: Hüzün
Chapter Eleven: Four Lonely Melancholic Writers
Chapter Twelve: My Grandmother
Chapter Thirteen: The Joy and Monotony of School
Chapter Fourteen: Esaelp Gnittips On
Chapter Fifteen: Ahmet Rasim and Other City Columnists
Chapter Sixteen: Don’t Walk down the Street with Your Mouth Open
Chapter Seventeen: The Pleasures of Painting
Chapter Eighteen: Reşat Ekrem Koçu’s Collection of Facts and Curiosities: The Istanbul Encyclopedia
Chapter Nineteen: Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople
Chapter Twenty: Religion
Chapter Twenty-one: The Rich
Chapter Twenty-two: On the Ships That Passed Through the Bosphorus, Famous Fires, Moving House, and Other Disasters
Chapter Twenty-three: Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoğlu Walks
Chapter Twenty-four: Gautier’s Melancholic Strolls Through the City
Chapter Twenty-five: Under Western Eyes
Chapter Twenty-six: The Melancholy of the Ruins: Tanpinar and Yahya Kemal in the City’s Poor Neighborhoods
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Picturesque and the Outlying Neighborhoods
Chapter Twenty-eight: Painting Istanbul
Chapter Twenty-nine: Painting and Family Happiness
Chapter Thirty: The Smoke Rising from Ships on the Bosphorus
Chapter Thirty-one: Flaubert in Istanbul: East, West, and Syphilis
Chapter Thirty-two: Fights with My Older Brother
Chapter Thirty-three: A Foreigner in a Foreign School
Chapter Thirty-four: To Be Unhappy Is to Hate Oneself and One’s City
Chapter Thirty-five: First Love
Chapter Thirty-six: The Ship on the Golden Horn
Chapter Thirty-seven: A Conversation with My Mother: Patience, Caution, and Art
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