Orhan Pamuk. (2009). The Museum of Innocence. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Orhan Pamuk. 2009. The Museum of Innocence. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.

Orhan Pamuk. The Museum of Innocence. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009.

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     Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He lives in Istanbul.

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From the Nobel Prize winner and "one of the great novelists" (The Washington Post) comes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Istanbul. 

It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. In his pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress—amassing a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.

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   • source: The Washington Post
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     A New York Times Notable Book
     
     One of the Best Books of the Year
     Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Kansas City Star
     
     "Spellbinding. . . . A resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation. With this book, he literally puts love in our hands."

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   • source: Los Angeles Times
   • content: "Mesmerizing, brilliantly realized. . . . Deeply and compellingly explores the interplay between erotic obsession and sentimentality . . . . There is a master at work in this book. . . . Istanbul--its sounds, its smells, its history--permeates everything."
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   • source: Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books
   • content: "Intimate and nuanced.... A classic, spacious love story."
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   • content: "Stunningly original. . . . Engrossing and sensual. . . . Granular and panoramic, satirical and yet grounded in reality. . . . Great writers have made the failed love stories of desperate, self-involved men pulsate. A master, like Pamuk, makes the story feel vital."
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   • content: "Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary, and Anna Karenina. . . . [Pamuk] is as accomplished an anatomist of love as Stendhal or Hazlitt in Liber Amoris. . . . Kemal's narrative crosses decades, assembling a fascinating social world of families, friends and dependents, a rich palimpsest of the lives and mores of Istanbul's haute bourgeoisie."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Enchanting. . . . Maureen Freely's translation captures the novelist's playful performance as well as his serious collusion with Kemal. Her melding of tones follows Pamuk's agility, to redirect our vision to the gravity of his tale."
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   • source: The New Leader
   • content: "This is the greatest novel of the new century. . . . In its sensuousness of the life observed, its Olympian insight into the clashes of classes and professions, and its fearlessness in tackling the great themes of human existence without dilution by showiness, tricks, or superficiality, it evokes the great novels of love and obsession by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Mann."
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   • content: "Enchanting. . . . A tour de force. . . . Museum digs deep into memory, and the inescapability of the past. And just as Dostoyevsky did in critiquing a Russia that looked outward to Europe rather than inward to find its soul, Pamuk portrays an upper class that takes its cues from the West, while threatening to dislodge itself from its native culture. . . . Pamuk's triumph is that you wish Kemal would stay a while longer."
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   • content: "Pamuk's sensual, sinister tale is a brilliant panorama of Turkey's conflicted national identity--and a lacerating critique of a social elite that styles itself after the West but fails to embrace its core freedoms."
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    • content: "[The Museum of Innocence] grabs and compels us, in prose that is deliberate, thoroughgoing, meticulous. . . . What clarifies breathtakingly by book's end--perhaps its secret heart--is the inverse story that is Füsun's: the quiet indictment of a culture locked into ancient mores that suffocated women to death."
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    • content: "[Pamuk's] most accessible novel and his most profound. . . . Following the spirit of Marcel Proust or another Turkish writer, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, the novelist's art is to accumulate detail in 'a "sentimental museum" in which each object shimmers with meaning.'"
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    • source: O, The Oprah Magazine
    • content: "A world-class lesson in heartbreak and happiness. . . . Pamuk's own presence in this wily narrative is as surreptitious as passion itself."
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    • content: "An alluring story--big in every way in Pamuk's hands."
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    • content: "A charmingly old-fashioned love story whose principal interest lies in the author's warm-hearted evocation of his milieu: Istanbul is Pamuk's city like Dublin was Joyce's or Chicago Bellow's."
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    • content: "Mesmerizing. . . . Awe-inspiring. . . . A haunting and evocative depiction of the passion and frailty of youth and beauty and of the enduring character of memory. . . . Istanbul maps the geography of Pamuk's soul. Reading The Museum of Innocence, most readers will find themselves falling deeply in love with that magical city."
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      Nobel laureate Pamuk's latest is a soaring, detailed and laborious mausoleum of love. During Istanbul's tumultuous 1970s, Kemal Bey, 30-year-old son of an upper-class family, walks readers through a lengthy catalogue of trivial objects, which, though seeming mundane, hold memories of his life's most intimate, irretrievable moments. The main focus of Kemal's peculiar collection of earrings, ticket stubs and drinking glasses is beloved Füsun, his onetime paramour and longtime unrequited love. An 18-year-old virginal beauty, modest shopgirl and “poor distant relation,” Füsun enters Kemal's successful life just as he is engaged to Sibel, a “very special, very charming, very lovely girl.” Though levelheaded Sibel provides Kemal compassionate relief from their social strata's rising tensions, it is the fleeting moments with fiery, childlike Füsun that grant conflicted Kemal his “deepest peace.” The poignant truth behind Kemal's obsession is that his “museum” provides a closeness with Füsun he'll never regain. Though its incantatory middle suffers from too many indistinguishable quotidian encounters, this is a masterful work.

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