Chateau Blanc by Orhan Pamuk

Chateau Blanc by Orhan Pamuk

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Chateau Blanc by Orhan Pamuk

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--master--a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination. Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook.
Orhan Pamuk nacio es Estambul, Turquia, en 1952. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2006, realizo estudios de arquitectura y periodismo, y ha pasado largas temporadas en Estados Unidos, en las universidades de Iowa y Columbia. Es autor de las novelas Cevdet Bey e hijos (Literatura Random House, 2013), La casa del silencio (Debolsillo, 2006), El castillo blanco (Literatura Random House, 2007), El libro negro (Debolsillo, 2008), La vida nueva (Debolsillo, 2009), Me llamo rojo (Debolsillo, 2009), Nieve (Debolsillo, 2011), El museo de la inocencia (Literatura Random House, 2009), Una sensacion extrana (Literatura Random House, 2015), asi como de los volumenes de no ficcion Estambul. Ciudad y recuerdos (Literatura Random House, 2006) y La maleta de mi padre (Literatura Random House, 2007) y de la coleccion de ensayos Otros colores (Literatura Random House, 2008). Su exito mundial se desencadeno a partir de los elogios que John Updike dedico a la novela El castillo blanco. Desde entonces ha obtenido numerosos reconocimientos internacionales: el premio al Mejor Libro Extranjero en Francia, el Grinzane Cavour en Italia y el premio internacional IMPAC. Con la publicacion de Nieve, novela por la que en 2006 fue galardonado con el Priz Medicis Etranger, Orhan Pamuk paso a ser objetivo predilecto de los ataques de la prensa nacionalista truca. Con la obtencion del Nobel de Literatura en 2006 su proyeccion internacional se consolido definitivamente, y sus libros han sido traducidos a mas de cuarenta idiomas.
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ISBN 13 9782070411061
ISBN 10 2070411060
Title Chateau Blanc
Author Orhan Pamuk
Series Folio
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Gallimard Education
Year published 1999-11-01
Number of pages 258
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.