The museum of innocence
Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-
The museum of innocence / Orhan Pamuk - 1st North American ed - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2009. - 535 p. ; 25 cm
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.
Translated from the Turkish to English
9780307266767
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)----Fiction
PL248.P34 / M3713 2009
FIC PAM
The museum of innocence / Orhan Pamuk - 1st North American ed - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2009. - 535 p. ; 25 cm
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.
Translated from the Turkish to English
9780307266767
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey)----Fiction
PL248.P34 / M3713 2009
FIC PAM
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