The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Adults, Literature
Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook. Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Edition:, Release date: February 27, 2018 Duration: 05:39:29, Summary 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 Hojamastera 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 others most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and te
