![]() ![]() A character named Orhan Pamuk authors the dead man’s obsessive story. He passes on Ap on what would have been her 50th birthday. Kemal builds a museum to her memory, filled with everyday objects from her life (4,213 cigarette butts alone!). Kemal finally breaks off with Sibel, finds Füsun, waits eight years for her to dump her “fatso” husband (by going to her family’s home some four times a week). Füsun dies. Kemal goes ahead anyway with his long-planned engagement to perfect partner Sibel Füsun disappears. In Istanbul in 1975, rich man Kemal (30) falls in love with poor distant relation Füsun (18). I’m adding here the requisite spoiler alert, but I’m fairly certain that most readers will guess the outcome lonnnggggg before the final pages. In spite of its heft (500+ pages, or 20.5 hours if you let the perfectly-paced John Lee read to you), not much really happens in The Museum of Innocence. ![]()
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