The Museum of Innocence, Autor:Pamuk, Orhan

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 esperienced 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.