Mapped
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
Over nine snowbound days in the winter of 1591, a miniaturist is found murdered in Istanbul, and Black, newly returned to the city, must find the killer among the Sultan's painters while courting the widow Shekure. Pamuk maps the real Ottoman capital: the workshops and streets of the old city, the imperial palace of Topkapi where the Sultan's secret European-style book is being made, the coffeehouse where the miniaturists gather, and the snow-covered city above the Bosphorus, in a novel that is also a meditation on art, faith and the clash of East and West.
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The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk
One man's love turned into an inventory of a city. The map runs from the wealthy boutiques and flats of Nişantaşı, where Kemal is engaged and the affair begins, down the hill through Beyoğlu to the old timber houses of Çukurcuma, where the years of longing settle and where Pamuk later built a real museum to hold them.
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