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The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.
The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance.
Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul.
'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times
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'Simply an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' --James Lasdun, Guardian
'[This] haunting novel of memory, desire and loss sets a ferociously high standard for the literary fiction of the decade' --Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
'I loved this book. It made me want to write a letter to the author. Dear Orhan Pamuk, this book is now on the shelf with my very favourite books of all time. Thank you for letting us into your mind and your world.' --Suzanne Vega, The Times Books of the Year
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'[This] haunting novel of memory, desire and loss sets a ferociously high standard for the literary fiction of the decade' --Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
'I loved this book. It made me want to write a letter to the author. Dear Orhan Pamuk, this book is now on the shelf with my very favourite books of all time. Thank you for letting us into your mind and your world.' --Suzanne Vega, The Times Books of the Year
'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times
The Museum of Innocence is a love story at once richly humorous and deeply tragic, from Orhan Pamuk, the bestselling author of Snow and My Name is Red
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0571237002
- ISBN 13 9780571237005
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages560
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