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Informationen zum Autor Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books of fiction, nonfiction, and photography. In 2003 he won the IMPAC prize for M y Name is Red , and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Erdag Göknar is Associate Professor of Turkish in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and former director of the Duke Middle East Studies Center. He is a scholar of literary and cultural studies and an award-winning translator whose research and publications focus on intersections of literature and politics in Turkey and the Middle East; specifically, on late Ottoman legacies in contemporary Turkish fiction, historiography, and popular culture. He is the recipient of two NEA literature fellowships (translation), two Fulbright awards, and residential fellowships at the National Humanities Center and the Stanford Humanities Center. Klappentext A beautiful repackaging of the Nobel Prize-winner's classic novel. An international bestseller for over a decade and one of the best-loved novels published by Faber. Vorwort The bestselling murder mystery from Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Zusammenfassung The Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and the Ottoman Empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. In Istanbul at a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their Master has to seek outside help.
