Museum of Innocence, the
Author(s): Orhan Pamuk
SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction
An irresistible love story: Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, The Museum of Innocence 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. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. For the past ten years, Pamuk has been setting up a museum 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 museum will be called The Museum of Innocence and it opens in 2010.
2009. A trade paperback copy in fine, unmarked and unread condition.
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Orhan Pamuk, described as 'one of the freshest, most original voices in contemporary fiction' (Independent on Sunday), is the author of many books, including The White Castle, The Black Book and The New Life. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2004 Faber published the translation of his novel Snow, which The Times described as 'a novel of profound relevance to the present moment'. His most recent book was Istanbul, described by Jan Morris as 'irresistibly seductive'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. He lives in Istanbul.
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- : Faber and Faber
- : Faber and Faber
- : 01 September 2009
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2021
- : books
Special Fields
- : 560
- : Export ed
- : HARDCOVER
- : Orhan Pamuk