The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk, Victoria Rowe Holbrook (Translator)

The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk, Victoria Rowe Holbrook (Translator)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

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