Author: Orhan Pamuk
Translator(s): Erdag Goknar
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 508
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0571218776
Description
Brilliantly narrated by a series of clever characters, this work is a stimulating brew of mystery, romance and rhapsody on the very nature of art. Inspired and inspiring, it confirms Orhan Parmuk as a Nobel-calibre artist in his own right.
But I have no style whatsoever. Having a style would be worse than being a murderer.
At the end of the sixteenth century, the art of Ottoman miniature painting is in a precarious state. The sultan has commissioned a great book: a celebration of his life, his empire and the thousandth year of the Hejira, to be illuminated by the best painters in Istanbul. His contractor, Enishte, wants to splash about in the latest European techniques, but Islam forbids the use of perspective-objects must be shown according to their importance in Allah’s mind. With fundamentalists on the march, Enishte has the artists paint just one section of a picture at a time, so they do not realize they are crating heretical images.
When the gilder is found dead in a well and Enishte is killed in his workshop, fear grips the rest of the miniaturists. Is the murderer in their midst? The sultan demands an answer, and the only clue seems to lie in the half-finished illustrations.
Contents
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CHAPTER 1
I am a Corpse
CHAPTER 2
I am called Black
CHAPTER 3
I am a Dog
CHAPTER 4
I will be called a Murderer
CHAPTER 5
I am Your Beloved Uncle
CHAPTER 6
I am Orhan
CHAPTER 7
I am called Black
CHAPTER 8
I am Esther
CHAPTER 9
I, Shekure
CHAPTER 10
I am a Tree
CHAPTER 11
A am called Black
CHAPTER 12
I am called Butterfly
CHAPTER 13
I am called Stork
CHAPTER 14
I am called Olive
CHAPTER 15
I am Esther
CHAPTER 16
I, Shekure
CHAPTER 17
I am Your Beloved Uncle
CHAPTER 18
I will be called a Murderer
CHAPTER 19
I am a Gold Coin
CHAPTER 20
I am called Black
CHAPTER 21
I am Your Beloved Uncle
CHAPTER 22
I am called Black
CHAPTER 23
I will be called a Murderer
CHAPTER 24
I am Death
CHAPTER 25
I am Esther
CHAPTER 26
I, Shekure
CHAPTER 27
I am called Black
CHAPTER 28
I will be called a Murderer
CHAPTER 29
I am Your Beloved Uncle
CHAPTER 30
I, Shekure
CHAPTER 31
I am Red
CHAPTER 32
I, Shekure
CHAPTER 33
I am called Black
CHAPTER 34
I, Shekure
CHAPTER 35
I am a Horse
CHAPTER 36
I am called Black
CHAPTER 37
I am Your Beloved Uncle
CHAPTER 38
It is I, Master Osman
CHAPTER 39
I am Esther
CHAPTER 40
I am called Black
CHAPTER 41
It is I, Master Osman
CHAPTER 42
I am called Black
CHAPTER 43
I am called Olive
CHAPTER 44
I am called Butterfly
CHAPTER 45
I am called Stork
CHAPTER 46
I will be called a Murderer
CHAPTER 47
I, Satan
CHAPTER 48
I, Shekure
CHAPTER 49
I am called Black
CHAPTER 50
We two Dervishes
CHAPTER 51
It is I, Master Osman
CHAPTER 52
I am called Black
CHAPTER 53
I am Esther
CHAPTER 54
I am a Woman
CHAPTER 55
I am called Butterfly
CHAPTER 56
I am called Stork
CHAPTER 57
I am called Olive
CHAPTER 58
I will be called a Murderer
CHAPTER 59
I, Shekure
Chronology