And when a final chance at happiness is ripped away, all that remains to him is his museum, this map of a society's rituals and mores, and of one man's broken heart.Ī stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and the strange allure of collecting, this is Orhan Pamuk's greatest achievement. His hoard will make him famous – and a laughingstock – in Istanbul society. Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence in the house in which his heros. From his visits Kemal will take away nothing but odd personal effects, possessions he will collect and cherish, in the private religion his adoration becomes. Orhan Pamuks first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance. The Museum of Innocence is the most recent novel by Pamuk, Turkish novelist and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature (its Turkish title is Masumiyet Müzesi, 2008) 1. But Kemal cannot forget her: he breaks up with his fiancée to pursue Füsun, only to lose her to another man.įor nine years Kemal finds excuses to visit Füsun's impoverished, conservative marital household, playing the kindly cousin, hoping to lure her back. ‘It was the happiest moment of my life, I didnt know’, begins Orhan Pamuk in his novel The Museum of Innocence, translated into English in October 2009.
Their incandescent liaison will flicker and die when Füsun learns of Kemal's engagement.
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. From the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize.
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