![]() ![]() The best painters in the Ottoman Empire work here as manuscript illuminators, or miniaturists. ![]() The book is mainly a murder mystery, set among a highly exclusive community of artists, soldiers and politicians in Istanbul at the height of that city’s golden age (the Sultan himself even makes a cameo appearance in this book). Orhan Pamuk has a calm and modest demeanor, but this book is much a tour de force as anything Chuck Pahlaniuk’s ever written, and it’s nearly as manic. Both books are classics, in my opinion, but My Name Is Red is the bigger book, and reaches for the grander statements. One is as current as yesterday’s newspaper and paints a frozen world of whites and grays, while the other takes place in 1591 and bursts with color and pure vision. This is a surprise because Snow was so good, but in fact the books make a great pair. My Name Is Red isn’t Orhan Pamuk’s most recent book, but it might be his best. ![]()
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