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

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Man-woman relationships--Fiction


Istanbul (Turkey)--Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)--Social life and customs--Fiction