New York. 1991. George Braziller. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807612642. Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook. 161 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by John Atwood.Jacket photograph by Decembre Ingres. Signed by the Author. keywords: Middle East Turkey Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - A young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is captured by the Turks, He saves himself from life as a galley slave by claiming to be a doctor. In Constantinople, he becomes half-astrologer, half-doctor to a Turkish savant who is eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West. Set in the seventeenth century The White Castle is the story of these two men. They are doubles, a fact which intrigues and terrifies them. They work on projects to entertain the jaded Sultan and they also raid each other's minds learning everything the other knows, appropriating each other's pasts, sins, and secrets. Then together they build an unwieldy war-engine to gain greater favor with the Sultan in his war against the Poles. They set off with the Sultan's army, and attempt to storm the White Castle. THE WHITE CASTLE introduces to American readers one of the most interesting and important younger writers of international fiction. Orhan Pamuk's exploration of identity, of the strained relations between a devout, superstitious East and a ‘rational' West, and of the fate of the intellectual as court jester to power and wealth is profound and timely. At the same time, the magic of his storytelling makes THE WHITE CASTLE a highly entertaining and moving novel. inventory #23900