The White Castle

** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **<br><br>Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature<br><br>Winner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction<br><br><b>'Turkey's foremost novelist . . . A first-rate storyteller.'</b> Times Literary Supplement<br><b>'Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate.' </b>Independent<br><b>'One of those are novels that call into being a complete and self-contained world shot through with a peculiar brilliance.'</b> New York Times<br><br>*Orhan Pamuk's first novel published in English*<br><br>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.<br>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.