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The Museum of Innocence

Orhan Pamuk · 2008 CE · Novel · Turkish · Contemporary

In 1975 Istanbul, Kemal, about to be engaged to a suitable woman, falls in love with a distant cousin working in a shop. Over the following decades he gathers the objects she has touched. Pamuk built a real museum of the collection in Istanbul alongside the book.

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