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A review by alinasknar
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
5.0
I tried as much as I could to prolong the last 20 pages of this book before I had to part with the love of Kemal and Fusun, but alas, I had to say goodbye to the tear-soaked pages of my paperback.
This is not a typical, hopeful, watered-down and stereotypical version of passionate love between a man and a woman, but a celebration of devotion, reverence, patience, and sacrifices people ought to make in order to be complete together with their soulmates.
Orhan Pamuk's prose is extraordinarily precise at capturing the gentle hues of romance, elegant verses of passion as well as the reflection of emotional distress caused by love conflicting with unsuitable time frames, family desires and social norms. The characters in the novel are inviting you to their welcoming Istanbul homes where you will feel not like a guest, but like the resident of their unique reality.
An excellent book to re-read, despite that now I know the story. I know I will come back to it when I miss my own loved one and will want to see my love expressed in words of some other human being, (and an amazing author by coincidence).
This is not a typical, hopeful, watered-down and stereotypical version of passionate love between a man and a woman, but a celebration of devotion, reverence, patience, and sacrifices people ought to make in order to be complete together with their soulmates.
Orhan Pamuk's prose is extraordinarily precise at capturing the gentle hues of romance, elegant verses of passion as well as the reflection of emotional distress caused by love conflicting with unsuitable time frames, family desires and social norms. The characters in the novel are inviting you to their welcoming Istanbul homes where you will feel not like a guest, but like the resident of their unique reality.
An excellent book to re-read, despite that now I know the story. I know I will come back to it when I miss my own loved one and will want to see my love expressed in words of some other human being, (and an amazing author by coincidence).