The hero then spends years attempting to win Fusun back from the film-maker she married, abandoning his fiancée and his society friends.

后来，主人公放弃他的未婚妻和各界友朋，耗时数年，试图重新赢得已成为制片商妻子的扶桑。

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Kemal's tale is told over raki to Mr Pamuk, who breaks cover to reveal his authorship (having also danced awkwardly with Fusun at Kemal's engagement party).

凯末尔的故事显示，帕慕克在一次饮酒过程中，透露了他就是本书的作者(如与扶桑笨拙地在凯末尔的订婚派对上跳舞)。

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In the novel, the protagonist, Kemal, collects everything that his adored Fusun touches a thousand everyday objects that are assembled here.

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Kemal slowly finds that his centre was by Fusun's side, rather as Mr Pamuk's fiction has recentred the world on his home city.

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It depicts Kemal struggling with his ambitions to make the perfect society match, even though his desire for Fusun renders him impotent with Sibel.

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