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Local Shelf lets you browse the films, TV, books and audiobooks you can borrow from the city's libraries. It's a free, unofficial community project.
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Through its 75-year-old narrator, Pericles Drakos, 'The Last Apartment in Istanbul' tells the story of Istanbul's deterioration, beginning from the Coronavirus crisis and weaving its way backwards to the 1950s.