My Name is Red Author: [Türkiye] Orhan Pamuk Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House

◆ The Nobel Prize winner who is the best storyteller

Pamuk's novels best embody the unique narrative structure of modern novels. One story has multiple appreciation angles and development contexts, which can not only meet the needs of simply reading the story, but also satisfy deeper thinking and aesthetics.

◆ Masterpiece

"Red" is the work that established Pamuk's status as an international literary master and has won almost all the important literary awards in the world.

◆ Best-selling novels in classic literature

"Red" is a best-seller worldwide, and the 2006 Chinese version is one of the best-selling Nobel Prize-winning works in China.

The story takes place in the Ottoman Empire in the late 1590s. The King Sultan secretly commissions a great book to celebrate his life and empire. Four of the best miniature painters of the time gather in Istanbul to paint this book that is said to shake religion and society. At this time, Hei, a young man who left his hometown for love for 12 years, finally returns at the call of his lover's father. In addition to love, he is also greeted by murders...

A miniature painter was found dead in a deep well, and the elder who was ordered to draw a manuscript for the Sultan was also killed. The Sultan ordered the court painter Osman and the young man Hei to find out the result within three days, and the clue was hidden somewhere in the unfinished painting in the book.

The author uses the storyteller's method to let all the characters speak for themselves: a dog, a tree, a gold coin, the color red, two corpses, death, and even the murderer himself. In their confession, in addition to the clues to solving the murder, there are also the spiritual aspects of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century and the different desires for happiness and meaning.

【Comment】

"From Pamuk to Istanbul and His Literary World": It was the first time in my life that I spent 10 days reading a person's novel. During these 10 days, I felt spiritually rich and abundant like an aristocrat. Mr. Pamuk is not only a great writer, but also a great literary guide. -- Yan Lianke

"My Name is Red: Pamuk deserves the Nobel Prize": I was deeply impressed by the author's wisdom when reading this imaginative work. This work is a great novel worthy of being recorded in history, and the author is a great writer worthy of our repeated appreciation. ——Cai Jun

"The Art of Interpreting Paintings": I think this novel, which took him six years to write, should be one of the greatest works of world literature at the end of the 20th century. --Leo Ou-fan Lee

"The Beauty of Ruins - Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul": Istanbul's unique "sorrow of ruins" comes from Pamuk's attitude of self-estrangement, and is also born from the eyes of Western writers as outsiders. ——Wu Xiaodong

Pamuk, the author of "Useless Uselessness", goes against the current: he is a literary reactionary. He is slow, very slow, extremely slow. He has such extraordinary patience in laying out details, so he has a curiosity about the outside world that most people do not have. - Xu Zechen

Orhan Pamuk

Born in 1952, he is a famous Turkish writer. He is considered one of the three most core writers in contemporary Europe, one of the most outstanding novelists in contemporary Europe, and an internationally renowned giant in Turkish literature. He is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works have been translated into more than 50 languages ​​and published, and are bestsellers in many countries and regions. Literary critics compare him with masters such as Proust, Thomas Mann, Calvino, Borges, and Umberto Eco.