The White Castle av Orhan Pamuk

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<p>Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature<br><br>Winner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction<br><br><b>¿Turkey¿s foremost novelist . . . A first-rate storyteller.¿</b> Times Literary Supplement<br><b>¿Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate.¿ </b>Independent<br><b>¿One of those are novels that call into being a complete and self-contained world shot through with a peculiar brilliance.¿</b> New York Times<br><br>*Orhan Pamuk¿s first novel published in English*<br><br>A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates between Venice and Naples. After being put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, he is bought by a Turkish savant eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West.<br>But as master and slave bond over each other¿s sins and secrets, their relationship grows increasingly complex. They soon find themselves part of the Sultan¿s army, and on a journey that will lead them to the mythical White Castle.</p>