Orhan Pamuk: My Name Is Red, Kartoniert / Broschiert
My Name Is Red
- Translation:
- Erdag Goknar
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 08/2002
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780375706851
- Item number:
- 11583316
- Volume:
- 432 Pages
- Weight:
- 313 g
- Format:
- 204 x 132 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 27.8.2002
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Blurb
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
Biography (Orhan Pamuk)
Orhan Pamuk, geb. 1952 in Istanbul, studierte Architektur und Journalismus und lebte mehrere Jahre in New York. Für seine Romane erhielt er 1990 den Independent Foreign Fiction Award, 1991 den Prix de la découverte européenne, 2003 der International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2005 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels und in demselben Jahr den Ricarda-Huch-Preis, 2006 den Nobelpreis für Literatur und 2007 die Ehrendoktorwürde der FU Berlin als 'Ausnahmeerscheinung der Weltliteratur'. Im Jahr 2012 wurde er mit dem Sonning-Preis ausgezeichnet.
