From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 man sailing from Venice to Naples is taken
prisoner by pirates and delivered to the Ottoman Empire in
Constantinople. There he is forced into slavery and left in the
custody of a brilliant Turkish inventor 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 the Ottoman Empire, a world
of pirates, slavery, magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery,
_The White Castle_ is a colourful and intricately patterned triumph of
the imagination.
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ISBN
9780571268368
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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