This is the first novel by the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, who I learned about with many other people when he won the Nobel Prize about 15 years ago. This is the third book of his I’ve read now along with My Name is Red, which is quite similar or shares similarities with this book, and Snow, a contemporary novel not all that much like these too. In this novel, we meet a young Italian scholar in the early Renaissance who is captured by slavers, and because of […]
I found this manuscript in 1982 in that forgotten ‘archive’ attached to the governor’s office in Gebze that I used to rummage through for a week each summer…
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
