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The Museum of Innocence (Perfect Paperback)

by Orhan Pamuk (Author)

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Perfect Paperback: 896 pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd. (Jun 2010)
ISBN-10: 0571237010
ISBN-13: 978-0571237012

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5.0 out of 5 stars Overwhelming, 2 Jan 2010

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This review is from: The Museum of Innocence (Hardcover)

This is my 3rd Pamuk book and it leaves me overwhelmed. It is astonishing in revealing the tiny details that make up our lives, overwhelming in it's description of that emotion that many of us will recognise. I have never been to Istanbul but I think I have now, I think I understand why someone would be crazy enough to be obsessed by a love for his entire life, to collect every object related to that love, to wonder if it's possible for any of us to lead happy lives, or whether we would even recognise it when happiness had arrived, or that we had let it slip us by? That is the question 30 year old Kemal o asks himself as the novel starts. I started reading this on xmas day and couldn't stop until i finished it today.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Kemal's Destiny, 12 Nov 2009

By	Paul Grainger (Lincoln, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Put simply, Orhan Pamuk's latest novel is a take on the rich boy meets poor girl conceit. Kemal, the hero, the thirty-something son of a factory owner, is due to become engaged to Sibel. Theirs is an ideal pairing from the better-off families that have everything going for them in the Turkey of the 1970s. Religion has no role to play in their world, and neither do the customs and living habits of the Anatolian lower classes. Until....

Until Kemal, out shopping for a suitable present for his fianc�e-to-be, unexpectedly meets eighteen year old F�sun. She is a distant relative, discredited by her family because she had taken part in a beauty contest, now working as a shop assistant. Keen to impress her with his worldliness, Kemal manoeuvres her into a sexual liaison that he keeps secret from Sibel, and which takes place in an apartment owned by his family.

But the relationship founders when F�sun's parents arrange for her to marry another man in order to save the family's face and she has to comply. Kemal, devastated by this, becomes consumed by jealousy and obsessiveness. The latter causes him to create a museum out of their love nest by accumulating mementoes of his affair with F�sun.

What follows is, in effect an ode to Istanbul, a city at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures; in a land in a state of flux, where modernism is doing battle with traditionalism, particularly with regard to the role of women, and where the fate of Kemal is determined by the norms in society which duly punish his duplicity.

The Museum of Innocence (Kemal's name for the apartment) sees the author in a playful mood, because by way of a ghost writer's narrative he even makes a cameo appearance towards the end of his own novel; also he makes frequent allusions to his non-fiction work, Istanbul: Memories and the City.

To place this novel in a particular category is not easy Is it serious fiction or pulp fiction? A story of sexual obsession or a melodrama? Let the reader decide.

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