Book Review

Orhan Pamuk (2009) translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
The Museum of Innocence: A Novel. London, Faber and Faber. 536 pages, Paperback, P189. ISBN 978-0-571-23699-2. Available at Exclusive Books, Riverwalk.

The Museum of Innocence is by the Turkish Nobel Prize wining novelist Orhan Pamuk (Mmegi 16 February 2007).It is the latest of his long, detailed, and delightful explorations of life in old Istanbul. It spans a decade starting on a Monday afternoon in spring on May 26, 1975. Pamuk, who wrote this novel between 2001 and 2008, has created an extraordinary tribute to a young woman, FŸsun, an ode to love and a confession of an obsession held by Kemal Basmaci.