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From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young man sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner by pirates and delivered to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople. There he is forced into slavery and left in the custody of a brilliant Turkish inventor known as Hoja--"master"--a man who is his exact double.

In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities. Set in the Ottoman Empire, a world of pirates, slavery, magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colourful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination.

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The White Castle, Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel is set in the Ottoman Empire, where a young Italian scholar is captured by pirates and put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market.
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The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar. Captured by pirates between Venice and Naples, he is put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, and bought by a Turkish savant eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West. But as they bond over each other's sins and secrets, and their relationship grows increasingly complex, master and slave find themselves part of the Sultan's army, and on a journey that will lead them, ultimately, to the White Castle.

'A new star has risen in the East - Orhan Pamuk. The White Castle is one of those rare novels that call into being a complete and self-contained world shot through with a peculiar brilliance ... [He] is a story-teller with as much gumption and narrative zip as Scheherazade.' New York Times

'Elegant and important ... Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate; their seriousness, their delicacy and their subtlety are everywhere in evidence.' Independence

'Turkey's foremost novelist and one of the most interesting literary figures anywhere ... A first-rate storyteller.' Times Literary Supplement

'Up there with the best of Calvino, Eco, Borges and Marquez.' Observer

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  • PublisherFaber & Faber
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 0571309690
  • ISBN 13 9780571309696
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages160
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