The White Castle (SIGNED)

Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread.

A landmark work of postmodern historical fiction, The White Castle chronicles the strange and psychologically charged relationship between a young Italian scholar enslaved in seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul and his Turkish master, Hoja, a man who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to him. Pamuk constructs a haunting meditation on identity, knowledge, and the blurring boundaries between self and other, as the two men become increasingly obsessed with understanding — and ultimately becoming — one another. Written with an elegant, dreamlike prose that carries an undercurrent of quiet menace, the novel argues that the distinctions between East and West, master and slave, and self and double are far more unstable than they appear. The narrative unfolds through a framing device that casts doubt on the very nature of authorship and truth, inviting readers to question who is truly telling the story. This early masterwork from the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author illustrates his signature preoccupation with memory, cultural collision, and the elusive nature of personal identity.