Rafael Carpintero Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

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. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance. Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence 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 house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul. 'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times

Osman, een jonge Turkse student in Istanbul, is zozeer onder de indruk geraakt van een boek dat hij in handen kreeg dat hij volledig wil opgaan in het nieuwe leven, waarvan in deze tekst sprake is. Geobserdeerd door het aan de lezer niet geopenbaarde boek raakt hij verwijderd van vrienden en medestudenten en verlaat hij tenslotte Istanbul om per bus het land in te trekkken. Zo doorkruist hij Anatolië tot in de meest afgelegen provinciestadjes in zijn zoektocht naar het nieuwe leven, de nieuwe wereld en vooral - zoals uiteindelijk blijkt - de liefde