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The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence is a novel of obsession and the things that we hold on to (sometimes without reason) to remind us of those situations.
Kemal is a young man in Turkey during the mid-1970s, a time of great change and modernization in the country. He's engaged to be married to Sibel. One day, he runs into Fusun, a distant relation, and falls in love with her and forms a relationship with her. Fusun is hurt by Kemal not breaking off the relationship with Sibel and leaves him. Kemal is then wrought with guilt and breaks his engagement with Sibel.
He then becomes absolutely obsessed with Fusun and begins collecting the most random things that he relates to Fusun and the time they shared (spoons that she has eaten from, etc.) Over the next several years, he strikes up a relationship with Fusun's family in order to get close to her.
I found it a little creepy about how long Kemal held onto his obsession but on the other hand, it's very human to hold onto the past sometimes.
Kemal is a young man in Turkey during the mid-1970s, a time of great change and modernization in the country. He's engaged to be married to Sibel. One day, he runs into Fusun, a distant relation, and falls in love with her and forms a relationship with her. Fusun is hurt by Kemal not breaking off the relationship with Sibel and leaves him. Kemal is then wrought with guilt and breaks his engagement with Sibel.
He then becomes absolutely obsessed with Fusun and begins collecting the most random things that he relates to Fusun and the time they shared (spoons that she has eaten from, etc.) Over the next several years, he strikes up a relationship with Fusun's family in order to get close to her.
I found it a little creepy about how long Kemal held onto his obsession but on the other hand, it's very human to hold onto the past sometimes.