القلعة البيضاء | أورهان باموق

In the 17th century, a young Italian is captured by the Turks after the ship taking him from Venice to Naples is seized. When one of the Turkish pashas investigates with him, it becomes clear that the captive Italian has knowledge of astronomy and medicine; These are the sciences that the Turkish Pasha is interested in; A desire arises to learn more about Western civilization through his Italian captive. The two then collaborate on the manufacture of many new machines, and create entertaining tales for the Sultan.

"The White Castle" is Orhan Pamuk's third novel, which is the beginning of his path to globalization. The New York Times even wrote about the author after the novel was published at the time, "A new star has risen in the eastern sky." In it, the author delves deeply into the relationship that brought together Western and Turkish cultures, through the stories of the two heroes - the captive and the Pasha - and their wanderings in the streets of Istanbul; The two discover a strange similarity in their personalities, which helps them answer the question: "Why am I the same?"

Orhan Pamuk; Novelist and academic, born in 1952. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. He is considered one of the most prominent Turkish writers, and his works have sold more than 11 million copies, and have been translated into 63 languages. He studied architecture and then journalism until he realized that he wanted to be a novelist; So he left everything and started writing. He published his first novel, Cevdet Bey and his Sons, in 1982, and in the same year he won the Orhan Kemal Prize for Fiction. Among his most famous novels: "My Name is Red"