![]() ![]() But no writer as elusive as Pamuk can write an uninteresting book, and as a meditation on art, in particular, My Name Is Red is exquisitely subtle, demanding and repaying the closest attention." - Tom Holland, Daily Telegraph In a lesser novel this would be a terminal flaw. "Less forgivable, however, is the fact that his various suspects are insufficiently differentiated from each other, so that in the end we simply don't care who the murderer is."While My Name Is Red has a many-layered plot - including a murder mystery and a love story - its thematic value is threefold: to provide a glimpse into an Islamic society, to understand the global tensions that exist when one empire waxes while another wanes, and to point out the cyclical nature of history." - Char Simons, Christian Science Monitor.Impressed, and quite a few find it absolutely brilliant International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner, 2003.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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