Emotions of love and hate accompanied me. Profoundly and desperately wishing for a comic end at the same time gnawed and haunted by the knowledge that it is meant to be a tragedy upon tragedy as most life stories are. Blood pressure did rise when in the end there was a hope of union, only soon to be crushed.
Continues... 04 Jun 2010, zarene
It really moved me. At the end of the novel I felt very bad for Kemal Bey and I could not stop myself from crying. When I finished the novel, for 2 hrs I could not control my mind I just could not stop thinking about them. It's really spectacular and an everlasting novel. I wish I could see the museum.
Link 31 May 2010, Pahal Manjul
As in many books by Orhan Pamuk, the real shining star of this novel is Istanbul. The story charts the development of the city's social mores and customs from an Eastern-dominated Conservatism to a much more Western system of values and conceits. Thus such concepts as pre-marital sex, female independence and free-market capitalism are among the major themes of the novel.
It's unfortunate, then, that the actual plot of the book falls far short of being the magnum-opus of love and life that the author is attempting.
Continues... 30 May 2010, tomcat
When I finished the pivotal chapter, The Engagement Party, I flung the book down in disgust and vowed to return it to the library immediately.
Then, to my horror and shame, I realized that not reading the book was causing me even more pain than reading the book. My "manly immorality" had dissolved into a mysterious numbness.
Continues... 20 Feb 2010, Kevin Burke
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You may start with the Wikipedia article about Orhan Pamuk to get more information on the writer of this book.
Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. You may read his Nobel Lecture: My Father's Suitcase
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Pamuk describes the relation between the novel and the museum as “The museum is not an illustration of the novel and the novel is not an explanation of the museum. They are two representations of one single story perhaps.” in an interview with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Pamuk is writing a series of articles, discussing the literary, philosophical and personal backgrounds of the novel and his thoughts on other great novels about love. These articles will also be linked here.
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