The White Castle

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The White Castle
1st US edition
Author	Orhan Pamuk
Original title	Beyaz Kale
Translator	Victoria Holbrook
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Carcanet Press (UK), George Braziller (US)
Publication date	1985
Published in English	1990
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

The White Castle (original Turkish title: Beyaz Kale) is a novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.

Plot introduction

The story is about a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples who is taken prisoner by the Ottoman Empire. Soon after, he becomes the slave of a scholar known as Hoja (master), a man who is about his own age, and with whom he shares a strong physical resemblance. The events of this story take place in 17th century Istanbul. The slave is told to instruct the master in Western science and technology, from medicine to astronomy. But Hoja wonders why he and his slave are the persons they are and whether given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities.

v • d • e Works by Orhan Pamuk

Novels:	Cevdet Bey and His Sons (1982) • The Silent House (1983) • The White Castle (1985) • The Black Book (1990) • The New Life (1995) • My Name is Red (1998) • Snow (2002) • The Museum of Innocence (2008)

Screenplay:	The Secret Face (1992)

Non-fiction:	Other Colors: Essays and a Story (1999) • Istanbul: Memories of a City‎ (2003) • My Father's Suitcase (2007)