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"A wonderful novel, dreamy, passionate and august, exotic in the most original and exciting way. Orhan Pamuk is indisputably a major novelist." The Spectator
Vintage International Series
Vintage
September 2002
432 pages ISBN: 0375706852 Trade Size
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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love
story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My
Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor
and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from
one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed
artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the
glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in
the European style. But because figurative art can be
deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous
proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know
the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts
when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only
clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished
illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part
philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic
journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and
power. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar
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