The museum of innocence /
Pamuk, Orhan
The museum of innocence / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely - Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009 - xi, 535 p. : ill. map ; 18 cm.
Includes index
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. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reactions
9780676979688 (hbk.) 9780307739957
Man-woman relationships--Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)--Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)--Social life and customs--Fiction
The museum of innocence / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely - Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009 - xi, 535 p. : ill. map ; 18 cm.
Includes index
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. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reactions
9780676979688 (hbk.) 9780307739957
Man-woman relationships--Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)--Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)--Social life and customs--Fiction