{"product_id":"tanpinars-five-cities","title":"Tanpinar's ‘Five Cities’","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781783088485\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2018\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst English translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's \u003ci\u003eBeş Şehir.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAhmet Hamdi \u003ci\u003eTanpinar's 'Five Cities'\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in Turkish as \u003ci\u003eBeş Şehir \u003c\/i\u003ein 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,\u003ci\u003e Five Cities\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eIstanbul: Memories of a City, Five Cities \u003c\/i\u003eemphasizes personal attitudes and reactions but has a wider scope of geography, history and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859721134213,"sku":"PR433643","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/tanpinars-five-cities","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}