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My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk, Erdağ M. Göknar
My Name is Red
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780571212248 (0571212247)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 508
Edition language: English
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Ana V.
Ana V. rated it
5.0 My Name Is Red
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...
Xdyj's books
Xdyj's books rated it
4.0
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...
wjmcomposer
wjmcomposer rated it
1.0 My Name Is Red (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
First to note: I didn't finish this book.That said, let me tell you why:This book is beautifully written, no question, and presents engaging and masterfully conceived themes and leitmotivs. However, in a book where one of the themes is blindness, I thought I was going to go blind reading the interlo...
Sacred Space
Sacred Space rated it
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 ...
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it
3.0 My Name is Red
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.
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