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The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 i

Who reads The Museum of Innocence?

Author

Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely

Publisher

Faber & Faber, Limited

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307273260

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (192 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14