FIRST LINE REVIEW: "It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." And because he didn't recognize it for what it was, Kemel spends the next 9 years trying to recapture the happiness that he lost because he was blind to the gift he had been given. This book has moved me profoundly, not only because I read it while in Istanbul where the novel is set, but because it spoke so heartbreakingly of the little moments that we too often ignore, innocent of the gifts that those moments can be. And in two days I will visit the actual Museum of Innocence and I already know that it will wreck me!