Museum of Innocence

01 January, 2010

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By Orhan Pamuk

Penguin,

560 pages, Rs 599

Infused with the same passion for the city that he displayed in Istanbul, Pamuk sets this delicate tale of a lifelong love affair between Kemal and his younger and distant relative Füsun, against the background of reflections on collecting, museums, memory, loss and an Istanbul gone by.

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