The only clue to the mystery-or crime?-lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, and the Sultan demands answers within three days. 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. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. ![]() 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. Though not fantasy per se, the setting and Pamuk's writing style should please most speculative fiction aficionados.įrom 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. Unlike One Hundred Years of Solitude, Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red captivates you from the very beginning, grabbing hold and never letting you go. And since Márquez's so-called masterpiece left me so thoroughly disillusioned, I elected to read the work that earned Pamuk the Nobel prize in Literature. Back in Canada, I ordered two of them to give the author a try. Every time I entered a gift shop, I would once again see his books and then peruse them, and my curiosity was piqued. ![]() ![]() But Orhan Pamuk's novels were everywhere during my stay in Turkey. After the disaster that was Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, I hesitated before giving another Nobel prize-winning author a shot.
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