My Name Is Red: Written and Introduced by Orhan Pamuk (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

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One of the Nobel Prize winners best-loved novels in a special edition featuring an introduction by the author and a chronology of Islamic and Western art history that provides additional context for this dazzling story of a murdered artist in sixteenth-century Istanbul. Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuks My Name Is Red set amid the artistic splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul is a fantastical story of love and murder propelled by the philosophical puzzle at its core. The Ottoman sultan has commissioned the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realmbut he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because there are those who believe art that imitates the real is an affront to Islam the project must be kept secret. Panic and scandal erupt when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears along with a crucial page of the manuscript. the surviving artistsbitter rivals variously motivated by pride greed faith and loveare all under suspicion of murder and the only clue to the mystery lies in the half-finished illustrations themselves.