I'd read good reviews of this critically-acclaimed book, so I decided to pick it up.It's sort-of a murder mystery set in 16th-century Turkey, by a Turkish author.I say sort-of, because although the plot definitely features a murdered artist, and his group of colleagues, one of whom killed him - whic...
Re-read via BBC:BBC blurb - The novel is a complicated mixture of murder mystery, fairy tale and exploration of the medieval world of the Turkish miniaturist painter. The novel begins - surreally - from the point of view of the murdered man; his body thrown down the bottom of a well, he waits for th...