Museum of Innocence

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Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely: Museum of Innocence (2010, Knopf Canada)

560 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2010 by Knopf Canada.

ISBN:
978-0-676-97969-5
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"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie--a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, restaurant rituals, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay--until finally he breaks off his engagement to Sibel. But his resolve comes too late.For eight years Kemal will find excuses to visit another …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, psychological
  • Istanbul (turkey), fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)