The Museum of Innocence is Pamuk’s first novel since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.  A profoundly stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting, the novel plumbs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional Islamic, its emergent modernity, its vast and dramatic cultural history. This is clearly the greatest achievement so far by the universally acclaimed Turkish author of Snow and My Name Is Red, plus five other great novels and the superb collection of essays, Other Colors. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He is one of the world's greatest writers, evidenced by his comparisons to Dostoevsky and other classical masters from a range of countries. 

“Orhan Pamuk has made his native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg, Joyce’s Dublin, or Proust’s Paris—a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own.” —  from the Nobel Presentation Speech Introduction.

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