The novel takes place in Istanbul, a mysterious and beautiful city that has experienced the highest flowering and sad twilight of decline. And most importantly, it has become a kind of meeting place for East and West. It is this meeting that underlies the famous novel "My Name is Red," the events of which take place in Istanbul of the sixteenth century. A passionate love story, a detective mystery, numerous stories, legends and legends of the ancient East, skillfully woven into the outline of the plot, immersion in the secrets of the skill of the Persian miniature, an elegant narrative - all this turns the work into a genuine masterpiece. Orhan Pamuk is a well-known Turkish writer, winner of numerous national and international prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature for "finding the soul of his melancholic city."