Das Museum der Unschuld

Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9VBYfYHMM

This book was on my reading list for quite some time... Till I finally bought it and read it. Did I like Kemal? No. Did I get annoyed by his obsession? Yes. He experienced this obsessive love that is hard to control, and Orhan Pamuk describes it so well. In all of his book (that I have read), he has managed to create complex characters, that have lots of faults and often annoyed them beyond belief. In short, they felt like real people. One other thing that I enjoyed so much was getting the glimpses of Istabul, life there, its people. It was tantalizing and magical... And some parts of what was there resonated with me, reminding me the milder version of those tidbits that experienced in my childhood in a country close by (and that only because I was born way later than when the novel is set). Still, a lot of parts of this book felt closer to home than novels from the US, UK or Europe.