![]() ![]() ![]() In April 1975 Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul’s richest families, met beautiful Füsun, the shop girl in a small boutique when Kemal went shopping with his fiancé Sibel. The Museum of Innocence is set mostly in Istanbul in the 1970’s. If you want to read the book in the near future, m y review may contain spoilers. ![]() I soon got so hooked on it that I finished half of the book in one weekend and by the next weekend I finished all of it. I haven’t read any reviews related to it and I haven’t had a clue what the book was about, that was why I find many elements in this book a pleasant surprise. It is unusual, speaking for myself where I only managed to read a measly 6 books this year. Not sure what happened but the calling to pull out this chunkster of 728 pages calls to me on one weekend after a stressful week at work and I sat down to read. ‘Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.’ –Financial Times ![]()
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