My Name Is Red
by:
John Lee (author)
Orhan Pamuk (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780739369241 (0739369245)
Publish date: September 2nd 2008
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Art,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Turkish,
Turkish Literature
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...
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...
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.
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