The museum of innocence

By:

Pamuk, Orhan

Contributor(s):

Freely, Maureen - Translator

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Faber & Faber Limited 2010Description: xv, 728p. pbkISBN:

9780571237029

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

894.36 PAM

Summary: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling. . . a very tender evocation of Istanbul’s moment of dolce vita.’ — The Guardian ‘Intimate and nuanced…. A classic, spacious love story.’ — Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books Kamal lives a life of cosmopolitan glamour, exploring the restaurants and boutiques of Istanbul with his friends and fiancé. In the newly modern city, they pride themselves on their liberal attitudes and Western style. A chance encounter with Fusun, a working-class shopgirl, begins a long, obsessive love affair, one that draws him deep into Istanbul’s complex history, and uncovers the forces of class and gender that still control its inhabitants’ lives.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Fiction	894.36 PAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005006

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling. . . a very tender evocation of Istanbul’s moment of dolce vita.’ — The Guardian
‘Intimate and nuanced…. A classic, spacious love story.’ — Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books

Kamal lives a life of cosmopolitan glamour, exploring the restaurants and boutiques of Istanbul with his friends and fiancé. In the newly modern city, they pride themselves on their liberal attitudes and Western style.

A chance encounter with Fusun, a working-class shopgirl, begins a long, obsessive love affair, one that draws him deep into Istanbul’s complex history, and uncovers the forces of class and gender that still control its inhabitants’ lives.

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