Why a Booktrail?
1975 onwards: There is an actual museum called the Museum of Innocence in the city which is based on events and characters of his book.
The Museum of Innocence
What you need to know before your trail
The Museum of Innocence is set in Istanbul and tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul’s richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Füsun, who is a mere shop-girl .
Travel Guide
You know when you hear of things in novels and think ‘ if only that were real’ – we don’t mean locations as such as many of them are – no – we’re talking about special locations such as Narnia or the bookshop in Gabrielle Zevin’s The Storied Life of AJ Fikry?- Well it just so happens that someone else has thought the same thing and has actually gone ahead and built it.
The Museum of Innocence as depicted in his novel of the same name has produced a spin off in real life – a museum which houses information of the characters and events of the stories. Çukurcuma Caddesi, Dalgıç Çıkmazı, 2, 34425, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Türkiye
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