The Museum of Innocence

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780571236992
  • 18 september 2009
  • 720 pagina's
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Orhan Pamuk

"Ferit Orhan Pamuk (generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk; born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.

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"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. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive, love affair between Kemal and Fusun; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. For the past ten years, Pamuk has been setting up a museum in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The museum will be called The Museum of Innocence and it opens in 2010.

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Taal
en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
18 september 2009
Aantal pagina's
720
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Orhan Pamuk
Hoofduitgeverij
Central Book House
Co Uitgever(s)
Fab

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
Maureen Freely

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Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
151 mm
Verpakking hoogte
45 mm
Verpakking lengte
233 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
717 g

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9780571236992

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Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Boek
Periode
ca. 1950-1999
Land
Turkije

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  • Wasted opportunity to explain Turkey

    Imagine being Kemal (30) in the 1970s, an industrialist about to be engaged to Sibel, a delightful young lady with a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne. In total breach of custom, you ravish her after hours in your office, but you do so in mutual faith in eventual marriage. But before your engagement party, you seduce Füsun, a poor, beautiful 18-year old shop girl, also your remote cousin, and ravish her almost daily in a dusty apartment owned by your mother. Upon which you become ever more suspicious and jealous about what Füsun might be doing in your absence, before your engagement party is fully organized...
    Poor Füsun is discarded and marries a poor man. Kemal pines for her ever since and writes this museum of innocence in her (or his) honour.

    Turkey did not cheer when OP won the Noble Prize for Literature in 2006. This book will not bring him many new fans.

    OP wrote it at 60+, an age when lots of early memories emerge and return, even to professional writers. They inspired him to create Kemal and his imaginary museum full of memories of objects, old brand names, songs, movies, media and sports events, literally anything to celebrate Istanbul during the1970s, which reminds him of Füsun. All this is described in great detail in 83 short chapters and > 700 pages.
    The tons of personal details and anecdotes make this novel an outdated guidebook to Istanbul. This reader would prefer the title to be” Museum of Sacrifice”, because who suffers? Surely Füsun, not Kemal, who combines the worst vices of the East with the best virtues of the West.
    This fat novel was not a feast for this reader. He finds Kemal a manipulative and sentimental hypocrite, deeply in love with himself.

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  • loved it

    It contains history about Turkey its not just a lovestory. It is a bit in the details but i did not mind that much loved that there is a real museum of innocence have to visit it!

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