On a cobbled street in Cukurcuma, a district known for its antiques shops on Istanbul’s European side, the story penned by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk in his bestselling novel The Museum Of Innocence has been brought to life.
Inside a red-painted house, visitors are confronted by a wall of 4,213 cigarette butts, many of them lipstick-stained, others angrily stubbed out, all obsessively kept by the book’s protagonist, Kemal Basmaci.
