![]() ![]() The narrators range from the main characters to corpses, horses, Satan and even inanimate objects like coins and trees. To change skins and perspectives often, the reader is kept on his toes. ![]() One of the most exciting feature of the book is that each chapter has a different narrator. There are innumerable subjects and illustrations that are discussed in vivid detail. The book has miniature painters as the main characters and it talks in detail about the techniques used in painting, the philosophy behind the paintings and the psyche and the lifestyle of the painters themselves. It was written in 1998 in Turkish and translated to English in 2001. Orhan Pamuk, the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature has written this amazing historical novel and set in the time of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. In reading this book, I was struck by the cornucopia of images, colours, illustrations. Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. Title: My Name is Red Author: Orhan Pamuk Genre: Fiction ![]()
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