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Country: Turkey
Written in: 1998
Pages: 448

Although this is one of the more modern novels we've read in this classics book club, it takes us back to the Ottoman Empire of the 1500s. My Name is Red has been translated into over 60 languages and has won literary awards from across the globe, so it's not hard to consider this a worthy read among the other great classic literature.

Here's a summary from [Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2517.My_Name_Is_Red):
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, *My Name Is Red* is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.

The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, *My Name is Red* is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.

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