![]() Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power. The only clue to the mystery-or crime?-lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. 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. ![]() ![]() But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. ![]() 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. ![]() 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” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)-set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul. ![]()
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