The White Castle

…fame with Beyaz kale (1985; The White Castle), his third novel, which explores the nature of identity through the story of a learned young Italian who is captured by pirates and enslaved by a scholar in 17th-century Istanbul. His subsequent novels, which were widely translated, included Kara kitap (1990; The…

…fame with Beyaz kale (1985; The White Castle), the first of his novels to be translated into English. This work, set in the mid-17th century, is a meditation on the oppositions between East and West. He returned to these themes in his subsequent novels, including Kara kitap (1990; The Black…