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My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1998
Originally in
Originally in Turkish
Pages
Pages 420

In the Ottoman sultan's workshop of miniature painters, one artist murders another over a book that dares to paint in the forbidden European way, and the paintings themselves take turns speaking.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk

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