The White Castle

In seventeenth-century Istanbul, a young Italian scholar is captured by pirates and sold into slavery to a brilliant Turkish inventor known as Hoja. As the two men work together on scientific projects for the Sultan, their physical resemblance and shared secrets draw them into an increasingly uneasy relationship. Set in the Ottoman Empire, the novel explores identity, knowledge, and the cultural divide between East and West.

by Orhan Pamuk

İletişim · First published 1985 · 199 pages