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Index
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
1. Another Orhan
2. The Photographs in the Dark Museum House
3. “Me”
4. The Destruction of the Pashas’ Mansions: A Sad Tour of the Streets
5. Black and White
6. Exploring the Bosphorus
7. Melling’s Bosphorus Landscapes
8. My Mother, My Father, and Various Disappearances
9. Another House: Cihangir
10. Hüzün
11. Four Lonely Melancholic Writers
12. My Grandmother
13. The Joy and Monotony of School
14. Esaelp Gnittips On
15. Ahmet Rasim and Other City Columnists
16. Don’t Walk Down the Street with Your Mouth Open
17. The Pleasures of Painting
18. Reşat Ekrem Koçu’s Collection of Facts and Curiosities: The Istanbul Encyclopedia
19. Conquest or Decline? The Turkification of Constantinople
20. Religion
21. The Rich
22. On the Ships That Passed Through the Bosphorus, Famous Fires, Moving House, and Other Disasters
23. Nerval in Istanbul: Beyoğlu Walks
24. Gautier’s Melancholic Strolls Through the City
25. Under Western Eyes
26. The Melancholy of the Ruins: Tanpınar and Yahya Kemal in the City’s Poor Neighborhoods
27. The Picturesque and the Outlying Neighborhoods
28. Painting Istanbul
29. Painting and Family Happiness
30. The Smoke Rising from Ships on the Bosphorus
31. Flaubert in Istanbul: East, West, and Syphilis
32. Fights with My Older Brother
33. A Foreigner in a Foreign School
34. To Be Unhappy Is to Hate Oneself and One’s City
35. First Love
36. The Ship on the Golden Horn
37. A Conversation with My Mother: Patience, Caution, and Art
Illustration Credits
A Note About the Author
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