The release date for the English version of 'My Name Is Red' by
Orhan Pamuk is Aug 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
One of the most well-known modern Turkish authors, My Name Is Red is a captivating romance set against the beauty and theological intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul. It is at once a brilliant symposium on the power of art, a fascinating love story, and a cunningly complex mystery.
A number of the most well-known painters in the country have been commissioned by the Sultan to produce an excellent book honoring the splendors of his empire. Their assignment was to light the piece in a European manner. But this assignment is a risky one, since figurative painting might be considered an insult to Islam. As a result, the ruling class cannot be fully aware of the project's nature or extent, and when one of the selected miniaturists vanishes, fear breaks out. The incomplete illuminations themselves hold the only solution to the mystery—or crime? My Name is Red is a colorful voyage to the nexus of art, religion, love, sex, and power. It is half dream, part intellectual conundrum.