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Author: Orhan PamukFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage BooksISBN-10: 0375706852
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780375706851
Subject: --Publication Year: 2002
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In this historical mystery set in the 16th century, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk creates a world populated by poets and artists who argue about the direction art seems to be taking (toward the use of perspective, and away from traditional flat planes), fall in and out of love, and try to solve a double murder. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001, and the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
MY NAME IS RED is perhaps the apotheosis of Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's long contemplation of the relationship between Eastern and Western cultures, and the illusive nature of art and identity. Set in 16th-century Istanbul, the novel revolves around an artistic commission by the Sultan Murat III: a scandalous book that uses Western artistic techniques rather than the Islamic-sanctioned ancient art of purely flat and decorative miniatures. One of the Sultan's four primary artists has been murdered, and each chapter uses a different narrator to illuminate the motives for his death, motives that are intrinsically tied to Turkish history, religion, and humanity's understanding of reality through art. Full of his trademark inventiveness, Pamuk's narrators are far from ordinary--they include the corpse of the murdered man, a coin, and even the color crimson itself. Though the conceptual framework of the novel--in the tradition of James Joyce or William Faulkner--is ingeniously conceived, Pamuk's book overflows with profound feeling and lush description, and represents a brilliant fusion of the intellectual and emotional powers of literature.

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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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"[A] whimsical but provocative exploration of the nature of art in an Islamic society....A rich feast of ideas, images, and lore."
Kirkus Reviews  (08/01/2001)

"Readers will have spells of feeling lost and miserable in a deliberate unreliability that so mirrors its subject: a world governed by fog. They will also be lofted by the paradoxical lightness and gaiety of the writing, by the wonderfully winding talk perpetually about to turn a corner, and by the stubborn humanity in the characters' maneuvers to survive."
New York Times Book Review - Richard Eder (09/02/2001)

"Although Pamuk demonstrates the patience and constructive ability of the nineteenth-century fabricators and their heirs Proust and Mann, his instinctive affinity lies with the relatively short-winded Calvino and Borges, philosophical artificers of boxes within boxes. Pamuk's boxes are bigger, but the toylike feeling persists, of craftsmanship exulting in its powers....This [is a] curious, protracted thriller...."
New Yorker - John Updike (09/03/2001)

"More than any other book I can think of, it captures not just Istanbul's past and present contradictions, but also its terrible, timeless beauty. It's almost perfect, in other words."


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My Name Is Red
ISBN: 9780375706851
Author: Pamuk, Orhan/ Goknar, Erdag M. (TRN)
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: 9/1/2002
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A furor erupts when the Sultan hires a group of artists, under the direction of Master Uncle, to illuminate a great book in the European style to celebrate his reign at a time in which all figurative art is considered Islamic heresy, but the situation becomes worse when one of the miniaturists vanishes, in a mystery set against the backdrop of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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