Diese ergreifende Geschichte unerfüllter, aber umso innigerer Liebe, beginnt im Jahre 1975 in Istanbul. Kemal, ein junger Mann aus der Oberschicht, steht kurz vor einer standesgemäßen Ehe. Da kreuzt die blutjunge und wunderschöne Fusun seinen Weg und zwischen ihnen entbrennt die Leidenschaft. Doch Kemal verlässt seine Verlobte nicht und so wendet sich Fusun einem anderen Mann zu und heiratet in ärmliche Verhältnisse. Kemal, sich seines Verlustes bewusst werdend, errichtet ihr zu Ehren aus Erinnerungsstücken das Museum der Unschuld, welches nicht nur ein Spiegel des Lebens von Fusun, sondern der Rituale und Gepflogenheiten der türkischen Gesellschaft darstellt.

Informationen zum Autor Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul, Snow, A Strangeness in My Mind and Nights of Plague . In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name Is Red , and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Museum of Innocence was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling'. Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul. Maureen Freely is an author, translator and teacher. She has written seven novels - including Sailing Through Byzantium, Enlightenment and The Other Rebecca . Also well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, she has brought into English several classics and works by Turkey's rising literary stars. For many years she worked as a journalist in London, writing about literature, social justice, and human rights. As chair of the Translator's Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally. She teaches at the University of Warwick. Klappentext Paperback edition of Pamuk's tale of forbidden love, set in Istanbul between 1975 and today. A commercial and critical success in hardback, this is Faber's lead fiction paperback for autumn 2010, and will be supported by a major marketing and PR campaign. 'Pamuk's haunting novel of memory, desire and loss sets a ferociously high standard for the literary fiction of the new decade.' Jane Shilling, "Sunday Telegraph" Vorwort A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty. Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty. 'An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' The Guardian'Intimate and nuanced ....

Vorwort
A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty.****

Autorentext
Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul, Snow, A Strangeness in My Mind and Nights of Plague. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name Is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Museum of Innocence was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling'. Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul. Maureen Freely is an author, translator and teacher. She has written seven novels - including Sailing Through Byzantium, Enlightenment and The Other Rebecca. Also well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, she has brought into English several classics and works by Turkey's rising literary stars. For many years she worked as a journalist in London, writing about literature, social justice, and human rights. As chair of the Translator's Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally. She teaches at the University of Warwick.

Klappentext
Paperback edition of Pamuk's tale of forbidden love, set in Istanbul between 1975 and today. A commercial and critical success in hardback, this is Faber's lead fiction paperback for autumn 2010, and will be supported by a major marketing and PR campaign. 'Pamuk's haunting novel of memory, desire and loss sets a ferociously high standard for the literary fiction of the new decade.' Jane Shilling, "Sunday Telegraph"

Zusammenfassung
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty. 'An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' The Guardian'Intimate and nuanced .