Book description
The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale
of a young Italian scholar captured by pirates and put up for auction
at the Istanbul slave market. Acquired by a brilliant Turkish
inventor, he is set to work on projects to entertain the jaded Sultan.
Orhan Pamuk, is the author of many celebrated books, including The
White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC
Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an
international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling,
immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in
Istanbul.
