Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Vintage (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 531 pages
Description
It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reactions.
Physical description
531 p.; 5.19 inches
Language
Original publication date
2008 (original Turkish)
ISBN
0307386244 / 9780307386243
Awards
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2011)
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (Shortlist — 2011)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Fiction — 2009)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Fiction & Poetry — 2009)
Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year (Fiction — 2009)