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Also by Orhan Pamuk:

Nights of Plague, October 2022
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The Museum of Innocence, November 2009
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The Black Book, July 2006
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Snow, July 2005
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Istanbul, June 2005
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My Name Is Red, September 2002
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The White Castle, April 1998
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The White Castle
Orhan Pamuk

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo 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.

Vintage
April 1998
176 pages
ISBN: 0375701613
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Historical | Fiction

In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople There he falls into the custody of a scholar 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 a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination.

Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook.

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