Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Winner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction
-Turkey-s foremost novelist . . . A first-rate storyteller.- Times Literary Supplement
-Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate.- Independent
-One of those are novels that call into being a complete and self-contained world shot through with a peculiar brilliance.- New York Times
*Orhan Pamuk-s first novel published in English*
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.
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.
