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My Name is Red

My Name is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

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#391

5.0 (2 reviews)
Pages
417
Award(s)
Nobel Prize in Literature (2006)

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...

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forline

Jun 19th, 2018

Interesting--not at all what I expected. Stories within stories. Lyrical writing!

sanayhs

Dec 9th, 2016

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