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It's not often you find books that start with the speech of an already dead character. It's actually pretty damn rare to find dead bodies speaking at all, wouldn't you agree? Well, Pamuk apparently didn't get the memo. Because that is exactly how his wonderful work, "My Name is Red", starts. The bod...
A novel about Ottoman miniaturists in 1590s, their passion for art & faith (which they understand in a more or less Platonist way), their desire & despair in attaining immortality through art, their love for coffee, folktales, and "pretty boys and beautiful women", in a city torn between past and fu...
I am in two minds about this book.Obviously, it is an important work. It showcases the miniaturist tradition of the Islamic world, and uses the cloistered world of miniaturists to explore the difference in philosophies between the East and the West. It was all the more interesting to me because I ...
The narrative is colored and flows with the weight of lush drapery. It is this dazzling brilliance that creates a languid nature which bogs the story down at times.
Earth and Ashes shows a new face of Atiq Rahimi than The Patience Stone. It is subtle, sewn with beautiful images: an apple falling on the ground, a cloud of dust, a tear welling in an eye. An old man and his grandson are all that is left of a large extended family after the Soviets burn down their ...
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