My Name Is Red
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: November 2, 2010
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780307593924
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- Literary
First sentence: I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
Description: Several voices narrate this stylistic murder mystery and love story in which a sixteenth-century sultan in Istanbul orders a noted artist, Enishte Effendi, to create a book illustrated in the Western style, which is considered blasphemous in the Islamic world--a dangerous assignment that results in the mysterious death of one of Enishte's chosen gilders.