The museum of innocence

By:

Pamuk, Orhan

Contributor(s):

Freely, Maureen [Translator]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Faber and Faber New York 2024Description: 733 pISBN:

9780571237029

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823 PAM

Summary: A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty. 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 shop-girl, 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. (https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571237029-the-museum-of-innocence/)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Non-fiction	823 PAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		007557

A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty.

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 shop-girl, 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.

(https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571237029-the-museum-of-innocence/)

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