When a love letter prompts this character’s mother to ask him if he wants a father, he replies, “No, when I grow up I’m going to marry you myself.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who would tell any lie “for the sake of a delightful, convincing story” according to Shekure. At the end of My Name Is Red, Shekure gives this character letters by Hasan and Black as well as a set of horse illustrations.
ANSWER: Orhan [accept Orhan Pamuk; prompt on the author of My Name Is Red]
[10e] Orhan Pamuk used a similar twist in this novel, in which the narrator Orhan reveals that the protagonist was eventually assassinated in Germany for betraying the militant Blue.
ANSWER: Snow [or Kar]
[10h] The historian Mina consults “the history enthusiast Orhan Pamuk” in a Pamuk novel about one of these events on the fictional island of Mingheria. In that novel, a princess investigates Bonkowski Pasha’s murder during one of these events.
ANSWER: bubonic plague outbreaks [or epidemics or pandemics; accept Nights of Plague or Veba Geceleri]
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