The Museum of Innocence

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2011
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571268412
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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

'An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' The Guardian
'Intimate and nuanced . . . a classic, spacious love story.' The New York Review of Books
'A resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation.' Washington Post

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraphs
• Contents
• Maps
• Acknowledgments
• 1: The Happiest Moment of My Life
• 2: The Şanzelize Boutique
• 3: Distant Relations
• 4: Love at the Office
• 5: Fuaye
• 6: Füsun’s Tears
• 7: The Merhamet Apartments
• 8: Turkey’s First Fruit Soda
• 9: F
• 10: City Lights and Happiness
• 11: The Feast of the Sacrifice
• 12: Kissing on the Lips
• 13: Love, Courage, Modernity
• 14: Istanbul’s Streets, Bridges, Hills, and Squares
• 15: A Few Unpalatable Anthropological Truths
• 16: Jealousy
• 17: My Whole Life Depends on You Now
• 18: Belkıs’s Story
• 19: At the Funeral
• 20: Füsun’s Two Conditions
• 21: My Father’s Story: Pearl Earrings
• 22: The Hand of Rahmi Efendi
• 23: Silence
• 24: The Engagement Party
• 25: The Agony of Waiting
• 26: An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains
• 27: Don’t Lean Back That Way, You Might Fall
• 28: The Consolation of Objects
• 29: By Now There Was Hardly a Moment When I Wasn’t Thinking About Her
• 30: Füsun Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
• 31: The Streets That Reminded Me of Her
• 32: The Shadows and Ghosts I Mistook for Füsun
• 33: Vulgar Distractions
• 34: Like a Dog in Outer Space
• 35: The First Seeds of My Collection
• 36: To Entertain a Small Hope That Might Allay My Heartache
• 37: The Empty House
• 38: The End-of-Summer Party
• 39: Confession
• 40: The Consolations of Life in a Yalı
• 41: Swimming on My Back
• 42: The Melancholy of Autumn
• 43: Cold and Lonely November Days
• 44: Fatih Hotel
• 45: A Holiday on Uludağ
• 46: Is It Normal to Leave Your Fiancée in the Lurch?
• 47: My Father’s Death
• 48: The Most Important Thing in Life Is to Be Happy
• 49: I Was Going to Ask Her to Marry Me
• 50: This Is the Last Time I’ll Ever See Her!
• 51: Happiness Means Being Close to the One You Love, That’s All
• 52: A Film About Life and Agony Should Be Sincere
• 53: An Indignant and Broken Heart Is of No Use to Anyone
• 54: Time
• 55: Come Again Tomorrow, and We Can Sit Together Again
• 56: Lemon Films Inc.
• 57: On Being Unable to Stand Up and Leave
• 58: Tombala
• 59: Getting Past the Censors
• 60: Evenings on the Bosphorus, at the Huzur Restaurant
• 61: To Look
• 62: To Help Pass the Time
• 63: The Gossip Column
• 64: The Fire on the Bosphorus
• 65: The Dogs
• 66: What Is This?
• 67: Cologne
• 68: 4,213 Cigarette Stubs
• 69: Sometimes
• 70: Broken Lives
• 71: You Hardly Ever Come Here Anymore, Kemal Bey
• 72: Life, Too, Is Just Like Love….
• 73: Füsun’s Driving License
• 74: Tarık Bey
• 75: The İnci Patisserie
• 76: The Cinemas of Beyoğlu
• 77: The Grand Semiramis Hotel
• 78: Summer Rain
• 79: Journey to Another World
• 80: After the Accident
• 81: The Museum of Innocence
• 82: Collectors
• 83: Happiness
• Index of Characters
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright