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The White Castle : a Novel by Orhan Pamuk is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a dazzling work of historical fiction and a treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo, a young Italian scholar in the 17th century 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.

Who reads The White Castle : a Novel?

Author

Orhan Pamuk

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307744043

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (260 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14