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A review by pavanayi
Музей невинности by Orhan Pamuk, Орхан Памук
3.0
The author has actually established a museum somewhere in Beyoglu which unfortunately I wasn't able to visit during my tour of Turkey.
To be frank, there were at least five times when I got sick of Kemal's obsession over Fusun and wanted to return the book to the library as he narrates for more than 200 pages (out of 530) how he misses Fusun.
The first 100 pages celebrates love/passion in an extraordinary way where Kemal finds harmony in his life as he sleeps with his fiance and Fusun sometimes on the same day. There are glimpses of Turkey, its people and the fragile morale as the country tries to come to terms with the amalgamation of western ideas with traditional ones. Yet it is the characters in the novel which surprised this reader with the author portraying the various shades of each character.
This is not a book to read when you are in a bad mood, for it will drive you down to the deepest holes of hell. Three stars for making the reader plunge into the depths of his/her own psyche and question what is right and what can be right?
To be frank, there were at least five times when I got sick of Kemal's obsession over Fusun and wanted to return the book to the library as he narrates for more than 200 pages (out of 530) how he misses Fusun.
The first 100 pages celebrates love/passion in an extraordinary way where Kemal finds harmony in his life as he sleeps with his fiance and Fusun sometimes on the same day. There are glimpses of Turkey, its people and the fragile morale as the country tries to come to terms with the amalgamation of western ideas with traditional ones. Yet it is the characters in the novel which surprised this reader with the author portraying the various shades of each character.
This is not a book to read when you are in a bad mood, for it will drive you down to the deepest holes of hell. Three stars for making the reader plunge into the depths of his/her own psyche and question what is right and what can be right?