![]() ![]() He started collecting items for the museum in the 1990s, searching junk shops and friend’s homes for ideas. Pamuk developed the idea for the novel and the museum in parallel, effectively blurring the lines between the two. While it would be easy to assume that the museum is an offshoot of a successful novel, The Museum of Innocence is more complex than that. My intense feelings of déjà vu can be explained by my own literary travel through the streets of Istanbul courtesy of Pamuk’s sweeping descriptions of his home town. I am on my way to The Museum of Innocence, Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk’s monument to a love affair and the subject of his 2008 novel of the same name. As I walk along the streets of Istanbul’s antiques district, where chic cafés and cocktail bars draw a fashionable clientele, I imagine a love sick soul weaving his way between the backgammon players, with their heads bent intently over their boards, as he searches madly for the woman he loves. ![]() I get a strange feeling as I climb the hill toward Çukurcuma, the kind you get when you visit someone you haven’t seen in years or a distant relative that you know all about but have never met. On a visit to the Turkish city of Istanbul, Susanna Smith visits a compelling museum that blurs the lines between fact and fiction to exquisite effect. ![]() 100 tips, tricks and hacks from travel insiders. ![]()
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