Orhan Pamuk is a famous Turkish writer, winner of numerous national and international awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature for “searching for the soul of his melancholic city.” In fact, the action of almost all of the writer’s novels takes place in Istanbul, a mysterious and beautiful city that has experienced the highest prosperity and the sad twilight of decline. However, if in other works the city skillfully hides behind the events, revealing itself as a suitable decoration, then in his book “Istanbul. City of Memories" Pamuk assigns him the role of the main character. Talking about his childhood and youth, the writer reveals Istanbul to us as a secret that is worth getting to know and love.