From the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize.
It is 1975 in Istanbul. Kemal, thirty, from an upperclass family, is engaged to a girl of like background when by chance he encounters a long-lost relation: Füsun is a shopgirl, an eighteen-year-old beauty who stirs all the passion denied him in a society where sex outside marriage is taboo. Their incandescent liaison will flicker and die when Füsun learns of Kemal s engagement. But Kemal cannot forget her: he breaks up with his fiancée to pursue Füsun, only to lose her to another man.
For nine years Kemal finds excuses to visit Füsun s impoverished, conservative marital household, playing the kindly cousin, hoping to lure her back. But Füsun s heart is hardened. From his visits Kemal will take away nothing but odd personal effects, possessions he will collect and cherish, in the private...
The Washington Post - Marie Arana
As familiar as the subject of love might seem, The Museum of Innocence is a startling original. Every turn in the story seems fresh, disquieting, utterly unexpected…The genius of Pamuk's novel is that although it can be read as a simple romance, it is a richly complicated work with subtle and intricate layers. Kemal's descent into love's hell takes him through every level of the social order, past countless neighborhoods of sprawling Istanbul, in a story that spans 30 years…In sum, The Museum of Innocence is a deeply human and humane story. Masterfully translated, spellbindingly told, it is resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation. With this book, he literally puts love into our hands.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
Publisher : Knopf
Author : Pamuk, Orhan
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2009-10-20
Number Of Pages : 560
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0307266761
ISBN-13 : 9780307266767
Item weight : 1.45 lb
Dimensions : 1.7 in x 6.6 in x 9.5 in
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