The Museum of Innocence

From the Nobel Prize winner and "one of the great novelists" ( The Washington Post) comes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Istanbul.  It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Weste