Rafael Carpintero Ordre des livres (chronologique)

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance. Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul. 'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times

" Un jour, j'ai lu un livre, et toute ma vie en a été changée." Osman, le jeune narrateur, est bouleversé par la lecture d'un livre mystérieux. Il est amoureux de Djanan qui, comme lui, cherche à comprendre les secrets du livre, mais Djanan aime Mehmet. Lorsque celui-ci et la jeune fille disparaissent, Osman part à leur recherche, comme à la quête de la vie nouvelle promise par l'ouvrage qui l'obsède. Pendant ses années d'errance à travers la Turquie profonde, Osman reste animé du même amour et du et du même espoir. Jusqu'au jour où il comprend que ce monde nouveau tant désiré n'est peut-être rien d'autre que la mort...