Orhan pamuk museum of innocence pdf

2008 novel by Orhan Pamuk

This article is about book. For museum, see The Museum of Innocence (museum).

The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a novel by the TurkishNobel-laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk, published on August 29, 2008.

The book, set in Istanbul between 1975 and 1984, is an account of the love story between a wealthy businessman, Kemal, and a poorer distant relative of his, Füsun. Pamuk said he used YouTube to research Turkish music and film while preparing the novel.^[1]

An excerpt, entitled "Distant Relations", appeared in The New Yorker on September 7, 2009.^[2] The English translation, by Pamuk's long-time collaborator Maureen Freely, was released on October 20, 2009 by Alfred A.

Knopf.^[3]

Plot

Kemal has been engaged to a pretty girl named Sibel for two months when he meets a shop girl, Füsun, while buying a handbag for his fiancee. What follows in the next month and a half is an