![]() ![]() ![]() After a year (about 120 pages) of Kemal souring his personal and professional relationships because of his addiction to her memory, they are grimly reunited again, but with Füsun now married to a fat film director. In short, after taking Füsun’s virginity and starting an affair behind his fiancé’s back, Kemal became obsessed with Füsun, which was turned into torture after Füsun ghosted him following his engagement party. ![]() The bulk of the novel takes place in Istanbul from 1975 to 1984 following the first-person accounts of Kemal Bey and his love/obsession over Füsun. In a page out of the frame narratives of the accomplished historical fiction writers, Pamuk’s center of gravity in Innocence lies in binaries: fiction v. Unless one were to cheat and do quick research into the content’s reality in the fictional novel, The Museum of Innocence ( Masumiyet Müzesi ) by Orhan Pamuk, it would take reading 700 pages to return to the ambiguous conclusion of, maybe ? Although that middle ground of uncertainty is troubling, that is the skill to which the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature winner wrote his premier post-laureate bestseller. ![]()
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