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Also by Orhan Pamuk:

Nights of Plague, October 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Museum of Innocence, November 2009
Hardcover
The Black Book, July 2006
Hardcover
Snow, July 2005
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Istanbul, June 2005
Hardcover
My Name Is Red, September 2002
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The White Castle, April 1998
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MY NAME IS RED
By: Orhan Pamuk

"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
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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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Marketplace - PRI - August 17, 2007
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All Things Considered - October 12, 2006
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