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Not featuring a museum in the traditional sense, with dinosaur bones or an empire’s worth of plundered artefacts, but rather an ad hoc collection of more pedestrian exhibits – Hogan’s novel is no less bristling with stories and history for that. It’s about a man who collects lost objects, prosaic little things found in parks and streets, and imagines the stories behind them while trying to reunite them with their owners. It’s beautiful and sad.
Orhan Pamuk in the real Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2020, inspired by his 2008 novel. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Similar to Hogan’s collector, Pamuk’s lovelorn businessman, Kemal, builds himself a private museum of items that relate to just one person, his illicit love Fusun. As the novel plays out over almost a decade, the Turkish businessman finds consolation and motivation to pursue his star-crossed lover through his archive of diverse trinkets that carry memories of their snatched moments tog
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