Orhan Pamuk is a well-known Turkish writer, a holder of many national and international awards, among them the Nobel Prize in Literature for “the search for the soul of his melancholic city.” Indeed, almost all of the writer’s novels take place in Istanbul—a mysterious and beautiful city that has experienced the highest peak of prosperity and the sad twilight of decline. However, if in other works the city is skillfully hidden behind events and serves as an appropriate backdrop, then in his book “Istanbul. City of Memories” Pamuk gives it the role of the main character. Telling about his childhood and youth, the writer reveals Istanbul to us as a secret worth learning and loving.