My Name Is Red (Vintage International) (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 9 books, including My Name Is Red (Vintage International), 2 weeks ago.

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 9 books, including My Name Is Red (Vintage International), 2 weeks ago.

Shelfari edited the description of My Name Is Red (Vintage International) Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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 the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. 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. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar

Shelfari edited the contributors of My Name Is Red (Vintage International) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Orhan Pamuk: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Erdag? M. Go?knar: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of My Name Is Red (Vintage International) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.