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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'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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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.Signed by the Author and the Translator on the title page. Signed by Author & Translator. Codice articolo 009605
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. LONDON: Faber & Faber [2008]. SIGNED first British edition. First printing. Hardbound. New, in dust jacket. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. (Smoke-free.) Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. His name only, no other inscriptions. Shipped in well padded box. You cannot find a better copy. UK-Ld. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo CASE1-147