3. The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
This is a beautiful book but it is filled with despair and sadness. Kemal falls in love with a shop girl while he’s engaged to be married. What follows is Kemal’s obsession with collecting anything that reminds him of her and their time together. Orhan Pamuk wrote this masterpiece after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. But the book doesn’t end with its pages. There is an actual Museum of Innocence curated by the writer which contains every item that is mentioned in the book.
“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently?”
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