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The white castle : a novel / by Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook.

by Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-

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Vintage Books, 1998.

Prisoners -- Fiction.

Scholars -- Fiction.

Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction.

9780375701610 (softcover)

Beyaz kale. English English

Alternate title:

1st Vintage international ed.

161 p. ; 21 cm.

Original Turkish language title: Beyaz kale.

"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. 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 triumph of the imagination, as colorful and intricately patterned as a Turkish prayer rug."--Back cover.

Turkish fiction -- Translations into English.

Historical fiction.

Steampunk fiction.

Magic realism (Literature)

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