My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk · 1998
Buy on AmazonMy Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of 1591, established Pamuk's international reputation and contributed to his Nobel Prize.
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"Yes, favorites include Gabriel García Márquez (especially "Love in the Time of Cholera") and Orhan Pamuk ("Snow," "My Name Is Red")."
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"A murder mystery set in 16th-century Istanbul, this gripping novel is about art and religion, the encounter of East and West, and above all the question of how we deal with modernity."
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