Books like My Name Is Red
In Istanbul in 1591, the sultan has secretly commissioned an illuminated book in the European style, and one of the miniaturists working on it is murdered.
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Snow
Ka, a Turkish poet back from exile in Germany, travels to the remote city of Kars to report on a wave of suicides among young women forbidden to wear headscarves, and a snowstorm cuts the town off.
The Black Book
Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, comes home to find his wife Rüya gone, and the same day her half-brother Celâl, a famous newspaper columnist, disappears too.
The Name of the Rose
A medieval monk and his novice investigate a series of murders in a labyrinthine Italian abbey, using Aristotelian logic against apocalyptic zealotry.
The Vivisector
Hurtle Duffield, sold as a small boy by his poor parents to a rich Sydney family, grows up to become a painter who will use everyone he loves as material.
The Janissary Tree
In Istanbul in 1836, Yashim, a eunuch who investigates for the sultan, has ten days to solve the murders of four officers of the New Guard before a great military review.
The Marriage Portrait
In 1561, Lucrezia de' Medici, the teenage wife of the Duke of Ferrara, is taken by her husband to a remote country villa and becomes certain that he intends to kill her.
The Books of Jacob
The 18th-century Polish-Jewish mystic Jacob Frank founds a movement that carries his followers across the borders of empire and faith.
The Gods Will Have Blood
In 1793, Évariste Gamelin, a poor young painter and ardent Jacobin, is appointed a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris.
Wolf Hall
Thomas Cromwell rises from blacksmith's son to Henry VIII's most powerful adviser, navigating the king's desire for a new wife and the reshaping of England.
Beauty and Sadness
Oki, a Tokyo novelist, travels to Kyoto to hear the New Year's bells and to see Otoko, the painter he seduced when she was sixteen, who now lives with a beautiful, jealous young protégée.
The Bastard of Istanbul
Armanoush, an Armenian-American girl from Arizona, secretly visits her stepfather's family in Istanbul, a houseful of women, and befriends Asya, the illegitimate daughter of the youngest aunt.
Samarkand
The story of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, from the poet's life in eleventh-century Samarkand to the hunt for his lost manuscript, which ends up aboard the Titanic.