Physical Description:print xi, 417 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Edition:1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher:New York : Vintage International, 2002, c2001.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
I am a corpse -- I am called black -- I am a dog -- I wIll be called a murderer -- I am your beloved uncle -- I am orhan -- I am called black -- I am Esther -- I, Shekure -- I am a tree -- I am called black -- I am called "butterfly" -- I am called "stork" -- I am called "Olive" -- I am Esther -- I, Shekure -- I am your beloved uncle -- I will be called a murderer -- I am a gold coin -- I am called black -- I am your beloved uncle -- I am called black -- I will be called a murderer -- I am death -- I am Esther -- I, Shekure -- I am called black -- I will be called a murderer -- I am your beloved uncle -- I, Shekure -- I am red -- I, Shekure -- I am called black -- I, Shekure -- I am a horse -- I am called black -- I am your beloved uncle -- It Is I, Master Osman -- I am Esther -- I am called black -- It Is I, Master Osman-- I am called black -- I am called "Olive" -- I am called "butterfly" -- I am called "stork" -- I will be called a murderer -- I, Satan -- I, Shekure -- I am called black -- We two dervishes -- It Is I, Master Osman -- I am called black -- I am Esther -- I am a woman -- I am called "butterfly" -- I am called "stork" -- I am called "Olive" -- I will be called a murderer -- I, Shekure -- Chronology.
Summary, etc.:
A furor erupts in sixteenth-century Istanbul when the Sultan commissions the European-style illumination of a great book, and the situation worsens when one of the miniaturists vanishes mysteriously.