The White Castle - Hardcover

Pamuk, Orhan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807612642 ISBN 13: 9780807612644

Publisher: George Braziller, 1991

Synopsis

The narrator looks back on his life as imperial astrologer for a Turkish sultan

About this title

Book Description:

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.

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: George Braziller
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0807612642
• ISBN 13: 9780807612644
• Binding: Hardcover