Kemal, a wealthy Istanbul businessman engaged to marry a woman of his own class, falls obsessively in love with his poor distant cousin Fusun, and after losing her spends years amassing objects connected to her that he eventually assembles into the museum of the title.
Books mentioned in The Museum of Innocence (3)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: “While Flaubert was writing Madame Bovary, inspired by his beloved Louise Collet... he kept in a drawer a lock of her hair, as well as a handkerchief and a slipper of hers”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “You'll all have to promise to wear white, as in The Great Gatsby. Have you seen it yet?”
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: “those plots about bands of sergeants that were 'rip-offs of a French adaptation' of The Three Musketeers, as Feridun would tell me with a smile”
Books that mention The Museum of Innocence (2)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk: “I had told him about The Museum of Innocence, an idea I was still keeping from everyone”