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My Name Is Red
A Historical Fiction Novel by Orhan Pamuk
Subgenres:
- Mystery,
- Love Story,
- Sixteenth-Century Istanbul
This book is for you if you're into...
- Art mysteries set in sixteenth-century Istanbul
- Philosophical puzzles about creativity, faith, and forbidden expression
- Stories where missing artists spark intrigue and suspicion
The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a modern classic rich and essential set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul.
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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