The Museum of Innocence /

Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-

The Museum of Innocence / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International ; 2010. - xi, 535 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.

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PL248.P34, / M3713 2009