In addition to The (*) Museum of Innocence and The New Life, he wrote about an Italian scholar who discovers that he is working with a doppelganger named Hoja in The White Castle.  
In one novel by this author, the main character buys a Jenny Colon handbag for his wife Sibel, though, while he is buying it, he is unsettled by interacting with a worker at the shop with whom he is madly in love and whose trinkets he obsessively collects.  In another of his novels, the narrator reads a book named after the title of the novel that illuminates and changes his life and encounters a woman whose name translates as "soul mate;" the two of them meet her probable lover who promptly disappears after being wounded in a shootout and then proceed to search for him, culminating in a bus accident.  In addition to The (*) Museum of Innocence and The New Life, he wrote about an Italian scholar who discovers that he is working with a doppelganger named Hoja in The White Castle.  For 10 points, name this author of Snow and My Name is Red, a Turkish nobel laureate.
In one novel by this author, the main character buys a Jenny Colon handbag for his wife Sibel, though, while he is buying it, he is unsettled by interacting with a worker at the shop with whom he is madly in love and whose trinkets he obsessively collects.  
Orhan {Pamuk}