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The Museum of Innocence (Vintage International)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2010
- ISBN
- 9780307386243
- Book Title
- Museum of Innocence
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Cultural Heritage, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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From the Nobel Prize winner and "one of the great novelists" ( The Washington Post) comes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Istanbul. It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. In his pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress--amassing a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307386244
ISBN-13
9780307386243
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80490743
Product Key Features
Book Title
Museum of Innocence
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Cultural Heritage, Literary
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl248.P34m3713 2010
Reviews
¿It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn¿t know it.¿ So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city¿s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie¿a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, restaurant rituals, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay¿until finally he breaks off his engagement to Sibel. But his resolve comes too late.For eight years Kemal will find excuses to visit another Istanbul, that of the impoverished backstreets where Füsun, her heart now hardened, lives with her parents, and where Kemal discovers the consolations of middle-class life at a dinner table in front of the television. His obsessive love will also take him to the demimonde of Istanbul film circles (where he promises to make Füsun a star), a scene of seedy bars, run-down cheap hotels, and small men with big dreams doomed to bitter failure.In his feckless pursuit, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart¿s reactions: anger and impatience, remorse and humiliation, deluded hopes of recovery, and daydreams that transform Istanbul into a cityscape of signs and specters of his beloved, from whom now he can extract only meaningful glances and stolen kisses in cars, movie houses, and shadowy corners of parks. A last change to realize his dream will come to an awful end before Kemal discovers that all he finally can possess, certainly and eternally, is the museum he has created of his collection, this map of a society¿s manners and mores, and of one man¿s broken heart. A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting, The Museum of Innocence also plumbs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional¿its emergent modernity, its vast cultural history. This is Orhan Pamuk¿s greatest achievement., A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Kansas City Star "Spellbinding. . . . A resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation. With this book, he literally puts love in our hands." - The Washington Post "Mesmerizing, brilliantly realized. . . . Deeply and compellingly explores the interplay between erotic obsession and sentimentality . . . . There is a master at work in this book. . . . Istanbul-its sounds, its smells, its history-permeates everything." - Los Angeles Times "Intimate and nuanced&. A classic, spacious love story." -Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books "Stunningly original. . . . Engrossing and sensual. . . . Granular and panoramic, satirical and yet grounded in reality. . . . Great writers have made the failed love stories of desperate, self-involved men pulsate. A master, like Pamuk, makes the story feel vital." -The Associated Press "Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary, and Anna Karenina . . . . [Pamuk] is as accomplished an anatomist of love as Stendhal or Hazlitt in Liber Amoris . . . . Kemal's narrative crosses decades, assembling a fascinating social world of families, friends and dependents, a rich palimpsest of the lives and mores of Istanbul's haute bourgeoisie ." - Financial Times "Enchanting. . . . Maureen Freely's translation captures the novelist's playful performance as well as his serious collusion with Kemal. Her melding of tones follows Pamuk's agility, to redirect our vision to the gravity of his tale." - The New York Times Book Review "This is the greatest novel of the new century. . . . In its sensuousness of the life observed, its Olympian insight into the clashes of classes and professions, and its fearlessness in tackling the great themes of human existence without dilution by showiness, tricks, or superficiality, it evokes the great novels of love and obsession by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Mann." - The New Leader "Enchanting. . . . A tour de force. . . . Museum digs deep into memory, and the inescapability of the past. And just as Dostoyevsky did in critiquing a Russia that looked outward to Europe rather than inward to find its soul, Pamuk portrays an upper class that takes its cues from the West, while threatening to dislodge itself from its native culture. . . . Pamuk's triumph is that you wish Kemal would stay a while longer." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "Pamuk's sensual, sinister tale is a brilliant panorama of Turkey's conflicted national identity-and a lacerating critique of a social elite that styles itself after the West but fails to embrace its core freedoms." - Vogue "[ The Museum of Innocence ] grabs and compels us, in prose that is deliberate, thoroughgoing, meticulous. . . . What clarifies breathtakingly by book's end-perhaps its secret heart-is the inverse story that is F sun's: the quiet indictment of a culture locked into ancient mores that suffocated women to death." - San Francisco Chronicle "[Pamuk's] most accessible novel and his most profound. . . . Following the spirit of Marcel Proust or another Turkish writer, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, the novelist's art is to accumulate detail in 'a "sentimental museum" in which each object shimmers with meaning.'" - The Economist, ANew York TimesNotable Book One of the Best Books of the Year Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Kansas City Star "Spellbinding. . . . A resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation. With this book, he literally puts love in our hands." -The Washington Post "Mesmerizing, brilliantly realized. . . . Deeply and compellingly explores the interplay between erotic obsession and sentimentality . . . . There is a master at work in this book. . . . Istanbul-its sounds, its smells, its history-permeates everything." -Los Angeles Times "Intimate and nuanced…. A classic, spacious love story." -Pico Iyer,The New York Review of Books "Stunningly original. . . . Engrossing and sensual. . . . Granular and panoramic, satirical and yet grounded in reality. . . . Great writers have made the failed love stories of desperate, self-involved men pulsate. A master, like Pamuk, makes the story feel vital." -The Associated Press "Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company ofLolita, Madame Bovary,andAnna Karenina. . . . [Pamuk] is as accomplished an anatomist of love as Stendhal or Hazlitt inLiber Amoris. . . . Kemal's narrative crosses decades, assembling a fascinating social world of families, friends and dependents, a rich palimpsest of the lives and mores of Istanbul'shaute bourgeoisie." -Financial Times "Enchanting. . . . Maureen Freely's translation captures the novelist's playful performance as well as his serious collusion with Kemal. Her melding of tones follows Pamuk's agility, to redirect our vision to the gravity of his tale." -The New York Times Book Review "This is the greatest novel of the new century. . . . In its sensuousness of the life observed, its Olympian insight into the clashes of classes and professions, and its fearlessness in tackling the great themes of human existence without dilution by showiness, tricks, or superficiality, it evokes the great novels of love and obsession by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Mann." -The New Leader "Enchanting. . . . A tour de force. . . .Museumdigs deep into memory, and the inescapability of the past. And just as Dostoyevsky did in critiquing a Russia that looked outward to Europe rather than inward to find its soul, Pamuk portrays an upper class that takes its cues from the West, while threatening to dislodge itself from its native culture. . . . Pamuk's triumph is that you wish Kemal would stay a while longer." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Pamuk's sensual, sinister tale is a brilliant panorama of Turkey's conflicted national identity-and a lacerating critique of a social elite that styles itself after the West but fails to embrace its core freedoms." -Vogue "[The Museum of Innocence] grabs and compels us, in prose that is deliberate, thoroughgoing, meticulous. . . . What clarifies breathtakingly by book's end-perhaps its secret heart-is the inverse story that is FÃœsun's: the quiet indictment of a culture locked into ancient mores that suffocated women to death." -San Francisco Chronicle "[Pamuk's] most accessible novel and his most profound. . . . Following the spirit of Marcel Proust or another Turkish writer, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, the novelist's art is to accumulate detail in 'a "sentimental museum" in which each object shimmers with meaning.'"dquo
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2010-293194
Dewey Decimal
894/.3533
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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