My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, 417 pages. Translated from the Turkish by Erda Goknar. Narrated by John Lee.Set in 16th century Istanbul and told from multiple points of view, Nobel Laureate Pamuk's hypnotic novel about murder on the fault-line between east and west. The sultan has hired the kingdom's best miniaturists to illuminate a history of his kingdom. Some see the depictions created as heresy. When one of the miniaturists is murdered, the others are all suspects. A wild assortment of narrators tell this beautiful tale.
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