White Castle The(R/J)

In the seventeenth century a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja—‘master’—a man who is his exact double. Hoja wonders given the knowledge of each other’s most intimate secrets if they could actually exchange identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery The White Castle is a colourful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination.