I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
An edition of Benim Adım Kırmızı
(1998)
My Name Is Red
First American Edition
by Orhan Pamuk
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From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel—part murder mystery, part love story—set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land. 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, and no one in the elite circle can know the full scope or nature of the project.
Panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, and the Sultan demands answers within three days. The only clue to the mystery—or crime?—lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Has an avenging angel discovered the blasphemous work? Or is a jealous contender for the hand of Enishte’s ravishing daughter, the incomparable Shekure, somehow to blame?
Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red is at once a fantasy and a philosophical puzzle, a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex, and power.
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Middle East Literature and Drama, Modern Comparative Literature, Ficción, Fiction, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iluminación de libros y manuscritos, Novela histórica, Islamismo y arte, Islam and art, History, 18.84 Turkish language and/or literature, Istanbul (turkey), fiction, Fiction, historical, Historical fiction, Scandals, Man-woman relationships, High schools, First loves, Women, Art, Fiction, historical, general, Literature and fiction, historical fiction, Enluminure, Romans, nouvelles, Islam et art, Manuscritos, Ilustraciones, Novela, Arte islámico, Verschwörung, Mord, Roman, Text, Belletristische DarstellungPeople
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我的名字叫紅: Benim Adim Kirmizi by Orhan Pamuk
2011-09, Mai tian chu ban
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in Chinese
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Wo de ming zi jiao hong
2006, Shanghai ren min chu ban she
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Rot ist mein Name
2005-07, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
Paperback
in German
- 4. Auflage
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Ik heet Karmozijn
2002-07, De Arbeiderspers
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My Name is Red
2001-11, Alfred A. Knopf
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My Name Is Red
2001, Alfred A. Knopf
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"I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."
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My Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of 1591, established Pamuk's international reputation and contributed to his Nobel Prize.
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